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Job 4

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1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered:
1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
2 "If someone tried to speak with you, would you be upset? I cannot keep from speaking.
2 “If someone ventures a word with you, will you be impatient? But who can keep from speaking?
3 Think about the many people you have taught and the weak hands you have made strong.
3 Think how you have instructed many, how you have strengthened feeble hands.
4 Your words have comforted those who fell, and you have strengthened those who could not stand.
4 Your words have supported those who stumbled; you have strengthened faltering knees.
5 But now trouble comes to you, and you are discouraged; trouble hits you, and you are terrified.
5 But now trouble comes to you, and you are discouraged; it strikes you, and you are dismayed.
6 You should have confidence because you respect God; you should have hope because you are innocent.
6 Should not your piety be your confidence and your blameless ways your hope?
7 "Remember that the innocent will not die; honest people will never be destroyed.
7 “Consider now: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Where were the upright ever destroyed?
8 I have noticed that people who plow evil and plant trouble, harvest it.
8 As I have observed, those who plow evil and those who sow trouble reap it.
9 God's breath destroys them, and a blast of his anger kills them.
9 At the breath of God they perish; at the blast of his anger they are no more.
10 Lions may roar and growl, but when the teeth of a strong lion are broken,
10 The lions may roar and growl, yet the teeth of the great lions are broken.
11 that lion dies of hunger. The cubs of the mother lion are scattered.
11 The lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
12 "A word was brought to me in secret, and my ears heard a whisper of it.
12 “A word was secretly brought to me, my ears caught a whisper of it.
13 It was during a nightmare when people are in deep sleep.
13 Amid disquieting dreams in the night, when deep sleep falls on people,
14 I was trembling with fear; all my bones were shaking.
14 fear and trembling seized me and made all my bones shake.
15 A spirit glided past my face, and the hair on my body stood on end.
15 A spirit glided past my face, and the hair on my body stood on end.
16 The spirit stopped, but I could not see what it was. A shape stood before my eyes, and I heard a quiet voice.
16 It stopped, but I could not tell what it was. A form stood before my eyes, and I heard a hushed voice:
17 It said, 'Can a human be more right than God? Can a person be pure before his maker?
17 ‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God? Can even a strong man be more pure than his Maker?
18 God does not trust his angels; he blames them for mistakes.
18 If God places no trust in his servants, if he charges his angels with error,
19 So he puts even more blame on people who live in clay houses, whose foundations are made of dust, who can be crushed like a moth.
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!
20 Between dawn and sunset many people are broken to pieces; without being noticed, they die and are gone forever.
20 Between dawn and dusk they are broken to pieces; unnoticed, they perish forever.
21 The ropes of their tents are pulled up, and they die without wisdom.'
21 Are not the cords of their tent pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?’
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