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4:1  Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
4:2  “If one speaks with you, will you want him to stop? But who can keep from speaking?
4:3  See, you have taught many, and you have given strength to weak hands.
4:4  Your words have helped him stand who would have fallen. You have given strength to weak knees.
4:5  But now it has come to you, and you are not happy. It touches you, and you are troubled and sad.
4:6  Is not your fear of God what gives you strength and your good ways that give you hope?
4:7  “Think now, who without guilt was ever destroyed?
4:8  As I have seen, those who plow sin and plant trouble gather the same.
4:9  By the breath of God they are destroyed. They are destroyed by the wind of His anger.
4:10  The noise of the lion, the voice of the angry lion, and the teeth of the young lions are broken.
4:11  The strong lion dies because there is no food to get. And the young of the lioness are sent everywhere.
4:12  “Now a word was brought to me in secret. My ear heard it spoken in a quiet voice.
4:13  With troubled thoughts from the dreams of the night, when deep sleep comes upon men,
4:14  fear came to me and I shook. It made all my bones shake.
4:15  A spirit passed by my face. The hair of my flesh stood up.
4:16  The spirit stood still, but I could not understand what I saw. Something was in front of my eyes. All was quiet, then I heard a voice:
4:17  ‘Can man be right more than God? Can a man be pure more than his Maker?
4:18  He puts no trust even in His servants. He finds mistakes among His angels.
4:19  How much more those who live in houses of clay, who build upon the dust, who are crushed like the moth!
4:20  Between morning and evening they are destroyed. Without anyone seeing it they become lost forever.
4:21  Is not their tent-rope pulled up within them? They die, and have no wisdom.’