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4 : 1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
4 : 2 If someone ventures a word with you, will you be impatient? But who can keep from speaking?
4 : 3 Think how you have instructed many, how you have strengthened feeble hands.
4 : 4 Your words have supported those who stumbled; you have strengthened faltering knees.
4 : 5 But now trouble comes to you, and you are discouraged; it strikes you, and you are dismayed.
4 : 6 Should not your piety be your confidence and your blameless ways your hope?
4 : 7 Consider now: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Where were the upright ever destroyed?
4 : 8 As I have observed, those who plow evil and those who sow trouble reap it.
4 : 9 At the breath of God they are destroyed; at the blast of his anger they perish.
4 : 10 The lions may roar and growl, yet the teeth of the great lions are broken.
4 : 11 The lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
4 : 12 A word was secretly brought to me, my ears caught a whisper of it.
4 : 13 Amid disquieting dreams in the night, when deep sleep falls on men,
4 : 14 fear and trembling seized me and made all my bones shake.
4 : 15 A spirit glided past my face, and the hair on my body stood on end.
4 : 16 It stopped, but I could not tell what it was. A form stood before my eyes, and I heard a hushed voice:
4 : 17 `Can a mortal be more righteous than God? Can a man be more pure than his Maker?
4 : 18 If God places no trust in his servants, if he charges his angels with error,
4 : 19 how much more those who live in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who are crushed more readily than a moth!
4 : 20 Between dawn and dusk they are broken to pieces; unnoticed, they perish forever.
4 : 21 Are not the cords of their tent pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?`