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Job

ESV

Chapter 4

1Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said: 2“If one ventures a word to you, will you be impatient? Yet who can refrain from speaking? 3Behold, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened weak hands. 4Your words have upheld him who was stumbling, and you have made firm the feeble knees. 5But now it has come to you, and you are impatient; it touches you, and you are dismayed. 6Is not your fear of God your confidence, and the integrity of your ways your hope? 7“Remember: who that was innocent ever perished? Or where were the upright cut off? 8As I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same. 9By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they are consumed. 10The roaring of the lion and the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions are broken. 11The strong lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered. 12“Now a word was secretly brought to me; my ear received a whisper of it. 13Amid thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, 14dread came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake. 15A spirit glided past my face; the hair of my flesh 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: 17‘Can mortal man be righteous before God? Can a man be pure before his Maker? 18Even in his servants he puts no trust, and against his angels he charges 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 beaten to pieces; they perish forever without anyone regarding it. 21Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.’

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