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4:1  Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
4:2  "If someone ventures a word with you, will you be impatient? But who can keep from speaking?
4:3  Think how you have instructed many, how you have strengthened feeble hands.
4:4  Your words have supported those who stumbled; you have strengthened faltering knees.
4:5  But now trouble comes to you, and you are discouraged; it strikes you, and you are dismayed.
4:6  Should not your piety be your confidence and your blameless ways your hope?
4:7  "Consider now: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Where were the upright ever destroyed?
4:8  As I have observed, those who plow evil and those who sow trouble reap it.
4:9  At the breath of God they perish; at the blast of his anger they are no more.
4:10  The lions may roar and growl, yet the teeth of the great lions are broken.
4:11  The lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
4:12  "A word was secretly brought to me, my ears caught a whisper of it.
4:13  Amid disquieting dreams in the night, when deep sleep falls on people,
4:14  fear and trembling seized me and made all my bones shake.
4:15  A spirit glided past my face, and the hair on my body stood on end.
4:16  It stopped, but I could not tell what it was. A form stood before my eyes, and I heard a hushed voice:
4:17  Can a mortal be more righteous than God? Can even a strong man be more pure than his Maker?
4:18  If God places no trust in his servants, if he charges his angels with error,
4:19  how much more those who live in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who are crushed more readily than a moth!
4:20  Between dawn and dusk they are broken to pieces; unnoticed, they perish forever.
4:21  Are not the cords of their tent pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?'