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Job 4

¹Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,

²"If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?

³Behold, you have instructed many, You have strengthened the weak hands.

⁴Your words have supported him who was falling, You have made firm the feeble knees.

⁵But now it is come to you, and you faint; It touches you, and you are troubled.

⁶Isn`t your piety your confidence, The integrity of your ways your hope?

⁷"Remember, now, whoever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?

⁸According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity, And sow trouble, Reap the same.

⁹By the breath of God they perish, By the blast of his anger are they consumed.

¹⁰The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, The teeth of the young lions, are broken.

¹¹The old lion perishes for lack of prey, The whelps of the lioness are scattered abroad.

¹²"Now a thing was secretly brought to me, My ear received a whisper of it.

¹³In thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falls on men,

¹⁴Fear came on me, and trembling, Which made all my bones shake.

¹⁵Then a spirit passed before my face; The hair of my flesh stood up.

¹⁶It stood still, but I couldn`t discern the appearance of it; A form was before my eyes. Silence, then I heard a voice, saying,

¹⁷`Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?

¹⁸Behold, he puts no trust in his servants. He charges his angels with error.

¹⁹How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before the moth!

²⁰Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.

²¹Isn`t their tent-cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.`

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Job

Chapter 4

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