| Chapter 4 |
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Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, --
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'If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking? --
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Behold, you have instructed many, You have strengthened the weak hands. --
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Your words have supported him who was falling, You have made firm the feeble knees. --
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But now it is come to you, and you faint; It touches you, and you are troubled. --
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Isn't your piety your confidence, The integrity of your ways your hope? --
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'Remember, now, whoever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off? --
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According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity, And sow trouble, Reap the same. --
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By the breath of God they perish, By the blast of his anger are they consumed. --
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The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, The teeth of the young lions, are broken. --
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The old lion perishes for lack of prey, The whelps of the lioness are scattered abroad. --
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'Now a thing was secretly brought to me, My ear received a whisper of it. --
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In thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falls on men, --
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Fear came on me, and trembling, Which made all my bones shake. --
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Then a spirit passed before my face; The hair of my flesh stood up. --
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It stood still, but I couldn't discern the appearance of it; A form was before my eyes. Silence, then I heard a voice, saying, --
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'Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker? --
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Behold, he puts no trust in his servants. He charges his angels with error. --
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How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before the moth! --
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Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it. --
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Isn't their tent-cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.' --
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