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4:1  A reply to Job from Eliphaz the Temanite:
4:2  “Will you let me say a word? For who could keep from speaking out?
4:3  In the past you have told many a troubled soul to trust in God and have encouraged those who are weak or falling, or lie crushed upon the ground or are tempted to despair.
4:4  In the past you have told many a troubled soul to trust in God and have encouraged those who are weak or falling, or lie crushed upon the ground or are tempted to despair.
4:5  But now when trouble strikes, you faint and are broken.
4:6  “At such a time as this should not trust in God still be your confidence? Shouldn’t you believe that God will care for those who are good?
4:7  Stop and think! Have you ever known a truly good and innocent person who was punished? Experience teaches that it is those who sow sin and trouble who harvest the same.
4:8  Stop and think! Have you ever known a truly good and innocent person who was punished? Experience teaches that it is those who sow sin and trouble who harvest the same.
4:9  They die beneath the hand of God.
4:10  Though they are fierce as young lions, they shall all be broken and destroyed.
4:11  Like aged, helpless lions they shall starve, and all their children shall be scattered.
4:12  “This truth was given me in secret, as though whispered in my ear.
4:13  It came in a nighttime vision as others slept.
4:14  Suddenly, fear gripped me; I trembled and shook with terror,
4:15  as a spirit passed before my face—my hair stood up on end.
4:16  I felt the spirit’s presence, but couldn’t see it standing there. Then out of the dreadful silence came this voice:
4:17  “‘Is mere man more just than God? More pure than his Creator?’
4:18  “If God cannot trust his own messengers (for even angels make mistakes), how much less men made of dust, who are crushed to death as easily as moths!
4:19  “If God cannot trust his own messengers (for even angels make mistakes), how much less men made of dust, who are crushed to death as easily as moths!
4:20  They are alive in the morning, but by evening they are dead, gone forever with hardly a thought from anyone.
4:21  Their candle of life is snuffed out. They die and no one cares.