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| 1Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said: | 1In reply, Eliphaz from Teman answered: |
| 2“If one ventures a word with you, will you be impatient? Yet who can keep from speaking? | 2"Will you get offended if somebody tries to talk to you? Who can keep from speaking at a time like this? |
| 3Behold, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened the weak hands. | 3Look! You've admonished many people, and you've strengthened feeble hands. |
| 4Your words have upheld him who was stumbling, and you have made firm the feeble knees. | 4A word from you has supported those who have stumbled, and has strengthened faltering knees. |
| 5But now it has come to you, and you are impatient; it touches you, and you are dismayed. | 5"But now it's your turn, and you're the one who is worn out! Now it's striking you, and you're dismayed! |
| 6Is not your fear of God your confidence, and the integrity of your ways your hope? | 6"Your fear of God has been your confidence, hasn't it? The integrity of your life has been your hope, hasn't it? |
| 7“Remember: who that was innocent ever perished? Or where were the upright cut off? | 7Now please think: Who has ever perished when they're innocent? Where have the upright been destroyed? |
| 8As I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same. | 8It's been my experience that those who plow the soil of iniquity and those who sow the seed of trouble will reap their harvest! |
| 9By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they are consumed. | 9They perish by the breath of God; they are consumed by the storm that is his anger. |
| 10The roar of the lion, the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions are broken. | 10"The lioness may roar, and the lion cub may growl; but even the ivory teeth of the full grown lion are broken. |
| 11The strong lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered. | 11Full grown lions die when they cannot find prey; that's when the lion cubs are scattered. |
| 12“Now a word was brought to me stealthily; my ear received the whisper of it. | 12"A message was confided to me; my ear caught a whisper of it. |
| 13Amid thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, | 13Disquieting thoughts from dreams at night; when deep sleep falls on everyone. |
| 14dread came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake. | 14A fear fell upon me, along with trembling that caused all my bones to shake in terror. |
| 15A spirit glided past my face; the hair of my flesh stood up. | 15A spirit glided past me and made the hair on my skin to bristle. |
| 16It stood still, but I could not discern its appearance. A form was before my eyes; there was silence, then I heard a voice: | 16It remained standing, but I couldn't recognize its appearance. A form appeared before my eyes; At first there was silence, and then this voice: |
| 17‘Can mortal man be in the right before God? Can a man be pure before his Maker? | 17Can a mortal person be more righteous than God? Or can the purity of the valiant exceed that of his maker?' |
| 18Even in his servants he puts no trust, and his angels he charges with error; | 18"Indeed, since he doesn't trust his servants, since 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 like the moth. | 19how much less confidence does he have in those who dwell in houses of clay; who were formed from a foundation in dust and can perish like a moth? |
| 20Between morning and evening they are beaten to pieces; they perish forever without anyone regarding it. | 20They are defeated between morning and evening; they perish forever—and no one notices! |
| 21Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them, do they not die, and that without wisdom?’ | 21Their wealth perishes with them, doesn't it? They die, and do so without having wisdom, don't they?" |
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