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Job

Chapter 4

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    Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,

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    If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking?

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    Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands.

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    Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.

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    But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.

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    Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?

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    Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?

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    Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.

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    By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.

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    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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    The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion’s whelps are scattered abroad.

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    Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof.

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    In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men,

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    Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.

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    Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up:

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    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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    Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?

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    Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly:

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    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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    They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.

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    Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.