Job 4
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1Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered: 1Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
2"If someone should attempt a word with you, will you be impatient? But who can refrain from speaking? 2"If one ventures a word with you, will you become impatient? But who can refrain from speaking?
3Look, you have instructed many; you have strengthened feeble hands. 3"Behold you have admonished many, And you have strengthened weak hands.
4Your words have supported those who stumbled, and you have strengthened the knees that gave way. 4"Your words have helped the tottering to stand, And you have strengthened feeble knees.
5But now the same thing comes to you, and you are discouraged; it strikes you, and you are terrified. 5"But now it has come to you, and you are impatient; It touches you, and you are dismayed.
6Is not your piety your confidence, and your blameless ways your hope? 6"Is not your fear of God your confidence, And the integrity of your ways your hope?
7Call to mind now: Who, being innocent, ever perished? And where were upright people ever destroyed? 7"Remember now, who ever perished being innocent? Or where were the upright destroyed?
8Even as I have seen, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same. 8"According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity And those who sow trouble harvest it.
9By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they are consumed. 9"By the breath of God they perish, And by the blast of His anger they come to an end.
10There is the roaring of the lion and the growling of the young lion, but the teeth of the young lions are broken. 10"The roaring of the lion and the voice of the fierce lion, And the teeth of the young lions are broken.
11The mighty lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered. 11"The lion perishes for lack of prey, And the whelps of the lioness are scattered.
12"Now a word was secretly brought to me, and my ear caught a whisper of it. 12"Now a word was brought to me stealthily, And my ear received a whisper of it.
13In the troubling thoughts of the dreams in the night when a deep sleep falls on men, 13"Amid disquieting thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falls on men,
14a trembling gripped me--and a terror!--and made all my bones shake. 14Dread came upon me, and trembling, And made all my bones shake.
15Then a breath of air passes by my face; it makes the hair of my flesh stand up. 15"Then a spirit passed by my face; The hair of my flesh bristled up.
16It stands still, but I cannot recognize its appearance; an image is before my eyes, and I hear a murmuring voice: 16"It stood still, but I could not discern its appearance; A form was before my eyes; There was silence, then I heard a voice:
17"Is a mortal man righteous before God? Or a man pure before his Creator? 17'Can mankind be just before God? Can a man be pure before his Maker?
18If God puts no trust in his servants and attributes folly to his angels, 18'He puts no trust even in His servants; And against His angels He charges error.
19how much more to those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth? 19'How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before the moth!
20They are destroyed between morning and evening; they perish forever without anyone regarding it. 20'Between morning and evening they are broken in pieces; Unobserved, they perish forever.
21Is not their excess wealth taken away from them? They die, yet without attaining wisdom. 21'Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them? They die, yet without wisdom.'
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