Job 4

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(Job 4:1) Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
(Job 4:2) "If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?
(Job 4:3) Behold, you have instructed many, you have strengthened the weak hands.
(Job 4:4) Your words have supported him who was falling, You have made firm the feeble knees.
(Job 4:5) But now it is come to you, and you faint. It touches you, and you are troubled.
(Job 4:6) Isn't your piety your confidence? Isn't the integrity of your ways your hope?
(Job 4:7) "Remember, now, whoever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?
(Job 4:8) According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same.
(Job 4:9) By the breath of God they perish. By the blast of his anger are they consumed.
(Job 4:10) The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
(Job 4:11) The old lion perishes for lack of prey. The cubs of the lioness are scattered abroad.
(Job 4:12) "Now a thing was secretly brought to me. My ear received a whisper of it.
(Job 4:13) In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,
(Job 4:14) fear came on me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake.
(Job 4:15) Then a spirit passed before my face. The hair of my flesh stood up.
(Job 4:16) It stood still, but I couldn't discern its appearance. A form was before my eyes. Silence, then I heard a voice, saying,
(Job 4:17) 'Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?
(Job 4:18) Behold, he puts no trust in his servants. He charges his angels with error.
(Job 4:19) How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!
(Job 4:20) Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.
(Job 4:21) Isn't their tent cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.'