Chapter 4

  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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