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4:1  Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered:
4:2  ‘If one ventures a word with you, will you be offended? But who can keep from speaking?
4:3  See, you have instructed many; you have strengthened the weak hands.
4:4  Your words have supported those who were stumbling, and you have made firm the feeble knees.
4:5  But now it has come to you, and you are impatient; it touches you, and you are dismayed.
4:6  Is not your fear of God your confidence, and the integrity of your ways your hope?
4:7  ‘Think now, who that was innocent ever perished? Or where were the upright cut off?
4:8  As I have seen, those who plough iniquity and sow trouble reap the same.
4:9  By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they are consumed.
4:10  The roar of the lion, the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions are broken.
4:11  The strong lion perishes for lack of prey, and the whelps of the lioness are scattered.
4:12  ‘Now a word came stealing to me, my ear received the whisper of it.
4:13  Amid thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on mortals,
4:14  dread came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake.
4:15  A spirit glided past my face; the hair of my flesh bristled.
4:16  It stood still, but I could not discern its appearance. A form was before my eyes; there was silence, then I heard a voice:
4:17  “Can mortals be righteous before God? Can human beings be pure before their Maker?
4:18  Even in his servants he puts no trust, and his angels he charges with error;
4:19  how much more those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth.
4:20  Between morning and evening they are destroyed; they perish for ever without any regarding it.
4:21  Their tent-cord is plucked up within them, and they die devoid of wisdom.”