Job 4
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Job 4
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1. Then
<b>Eliphaz the Temanite </b>
answered and said,
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2. If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself
from speaking?
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3. Behold,
<b> thou hast instructed many</b>
, and thou hast
<b>strengthened the weak hands.</b>
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4. Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble
knees.
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5. But now
<b>it is come upon thee</b>
, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.
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<b>6. Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?</b>
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7. Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous
cut off?
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8. Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
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9. By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.
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10. The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the
young lions, are broken.
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11. The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered
abroad.
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12. Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof.
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13. In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men,
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14. Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.
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15. Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up:
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16. It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine
eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying,
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17. Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
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<b>18. Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly:</b>
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19. How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust,
which are crushed before the moth?
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20. They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any
regarding it.
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21. Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.
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