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Job 4:7-17

7 Think back now. Name a single case where someone righteous met with disaster.

7 “Consider now: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Where were the upright ever destroyed?

8 I have seen people plow fields of evil and plant wickedness like seed; now they harvest wickedness and evil.

8 As I have observed, those who plow evil and those who sow trouble reap it.

9 Like a storm, God destroys them in his anger.

9 At the breath of God they perish; at the blast of his anger they are no more.

10 The wicked roar and growl like lions, but God silences them and breaks their teeth.

10 The lions may roar and growl, yet the teeth of the great lions are broken.

11 Like lions with nothing to kill and eat, they die, and all their children are scattered.

11 The lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.

12 Once a message came quietly, so quietly I could hardly hear it.

12 “A word was secretly brought to me, my ears caught a whisper of it.

13 Like a nightmare it disturbed my sleep.

13 Amid disquieting dreams in the night, when deep sleep falls on people,

14 I trembled and shuddered; my whole body shook with fear.

14 fear and trembling seized me and made all my bones shake.

15 A light breeze touched my face, and my skin crawled with fright.

15 A spirit glided past my face, and the hair on my body stood on end.

16 I could see something standing there; I stared, but couldn't tell what it was. Then I heard a voice out of the silence:

16 It stopped, but I could not tell what it was. A form stood before my eyes, and I heard a hushed voice:

17 "Can anyone be righteous in the sight of God or be pure before his Creator?

17 ‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God? Can even a strong man be more pure than his Maker?