📖 Job 4
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Eliphaz Begins to Speak Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered:
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“If someone should attempt a word with you, will you be impatient? But who can refrain from speaking?
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Look, you have instructed many; you have strengthened feeble hands.
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Your words have supported those who stumbled, and you have strengthened the knees that gave way.
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But now the same thing comes to you, and you are discouraged; it strikes you, and you are terrified.
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Is not your piety your confidence, and your blameless ways your hope?
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Call to mind now: Who, being innocent, ever perished? And where were upright people ever destroyed?
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Even as I have seen, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.
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By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they are consumed.
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There is the roaring of the lion and the growling of the young lion, but the teeth of the young lions are broken.
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The mighty lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
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Ungodly Complainers Provoke God’s Wrath“Now a word was secretly brought to me, and my ear caught a whisper of it.
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In the troubling thoughts of the dreams in the night when a deep sleep falls on men,
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dread gripped me and trembling, which made all my bones shake.
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Then a breath of air passes by my face; it makes the hair of my flesh stand up.
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It stands still, but I cannot recognize its appearance; an image is before my eyes, and I hear a murmuring voice:
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“Is a mortal man righteous before God? Or a man pure before his Creator?
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If God puts no trust in his servants and attributes folly to his angels,
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how much more to those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth?
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They are destroyed between morning and evening; they perish forever without anyone regarding it.
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Is not their excess wealth taken away from them? They die, yet without attaining wisdom.