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| 4:1 |
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered:
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| 4:2 |
"If one ventures a word with you, will you be offended? But who can keep from speaking?
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| 4:3 |
See, you have instructed many; you have strengthened the weak hands.
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| 4:4 |
Your words have supported those who were stumbling, and you have made firm the feeble knees.
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| 4:5 |
But now it has come to you, and you are impatient; it touches you, and you are dismayed.
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| 4:6 |
Is not your fear of God your confidence, and the integrity of your ways your hope?
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| 4:7 |
"Think now, who that was innocent ever perished? Or where were the upright cut off?
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| 4:8 |
As I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same.
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| 4:9 |
By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they are consumed.
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| 4:10 |
The roar of the lion, the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions are broken.
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| 4:11 |
The strong lion perishes for lack of prey, and the whelps of the lioness are scattered.
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| 4:12 |
"Now a word came stealing to me, my ear received the whisper of it.
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| 4:13 |
Amid thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on mortals,
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| 4:14 |
dread came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake.
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| 4:15 |
A spirit glided past my face; the hair of my flesh bristled.
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| 4:16 |
It stood still, but I could not discern its appearance. A form was before my eyes; there was silence, then I heard a voice:
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| 4:17 |
'Can mortals be righteous before God? Can human beings be pure before their Maker?
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| 4:18 |
Even in his servants he puts no trust, and his angels he charges with error;
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| 4:19 |
how much more those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth.
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| 4:20 |
Between morning and evening they are destroyed; they perish forever without any regarding it.
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| 4:21 |
Their tent-cord is plucked up within them, and they die devoid of wisdom.'
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