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1Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said: | 1Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied: |
2“If one ventures a word with you, will you be impatient? Yet who can keep from speaking? | 2Should anyone try to speak with you when you are exhausted? Yet who can keep from speaking? |
3Behold, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened the weak hands. | 3Indeed, you have instructed many and have strengthened weak hands. |
4Your words have upheld him who was stumbling, and you have made firm the feeble knees. | 4Your words have steadied the one who was stumbling and braced the knees that were buckling. |
5But now it has come to you, and you are impatient; it touches you, and you are dismayed. | 5But now that this has happened to you, you have become exhausted. It strikes you, and you are dismayed. |
6Is not your fear of God your confidence, and the integrity of your ways your hope? | 6Isn't your piety your confidence, and the integrity of your life your hope? |
7“Remember: who that was innocent ever perished? Or where were the upright cut off? | 7Consider: Who has perished when he was innocent? Where have the honest been destroyed? |
8As I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same. | 8In my experience, those who plow injustice and those who sow trouble reap the same. |
9By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they are consumed. | 9They perish at a single blast from God and come to an end by the breath of his nostrils. |
10The roar of the lion, the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions are broken. | 10The lion may roar and the fierce lion growl, but the teeth of young lions are broken. |
11The strong lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered. | 11The strong lion dies if it catches no prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered. |
12“Now a word was brought to me stealthily; my ear received the whisper of it. | 12A word was brought to me in secret; my ears caught a whisper of it. |
13Amid thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, | 13Among unsettling thoughts from visions in the night, when deep sleep comes over men, |
14dread came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake. | 14fear and trembling came over me and made all my bones shake. |
15A spirit glided past my face; the hair of my flesh stood up. | 15I felt a draft on my face, and the hair on my body stood up. |
16It stood still, but I could not discern its appearance. A form was before my eyes; there was silence, then I heard a voice: | 16A figure stood there, but I could not recognize its appearance; a form loomed before my eyes. I heard a whispering voice: |
17‘Can mortal man be in the right before God? Can a man be pure before his Maker? | 17"Can a mortal be righteous before God? Can a man be more pure than his Maker?" |
18Even in his servants he puts no trust, and his angels he charges with error; | 18If God puts no trust in his servants and he charges his angels with foolishness, |
19how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like the moth. | 19how much more those who dwell in clay houses, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth! |
20Between morning and evening they are beaten to pieces; they perish forever without anyone regarding it. | 20They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; they perish forever while no one notices. |
21Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them, do they not die, and that without wisdom?’ | 21Are their tent cords not pulled up? They die without wisdom. |
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