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4:1  Then Elifaz the Teimani spoke up:
4:2  “If one tries to speak to you, will you mind? Yet who could keep from speaking?
4:3  You have given moral instruction to many, you have firmed up feeble hands,
4:4  your words have supported those who were stumbling, and you have strengthened the weak-kneed.
4:5  “But now it comes to you, and you are impatient; at the first touch, you are in shock.
4:6  Isn’t your fear of God your assurance, and the integrity of your ways your hope?
4:7  “Think back: what innocent person has perished? Since when are the upright destroyed?
4:8  What I see is that those who plow sin and sow trouble reap just that.
4:9  At a breath from God, they perish; at a blast from his anger, they are consumed.
4:10  The lion may growl, the king lion may roar, but that old lion’s teeth are broken;
4:11  so the lion succumbs from lack of prey, and the lion’s cubs are scattered.
4:12  “For a word was stealthily brought to me, my ear caught only a whisper of it.
4:13  In passing thoughts flashing through visions at night, when sleep lies heavy on people,
4:14  a shiver of horror came over me; it made all my bones tremble.
4:15  Then a spirit passed in front of my face; the hair of my flesh stood on end.
4:16  It stood still, but I couldn’t make out its appearance; yet the form stayed there before my eyes. Then I heard a subdued voice:
4:17  ‘Can a human be seen by God as righteous? Can a mortal be pure before his maker?
4:18  [God] doesn’t trust his own servants, he finds fault even with his angels;
4:19  much more those living in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust. They are crushed more easily than a worm;
4:20  shattered between morning and evening; they perish forever, and no one takes notice.
4:21  Their cord within them is pulled up; then they die, without ever gaining wisdom.’