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4:1  Then Eliphaz, the Temanite, answered and said,
4:2  If we attempt to commune with thee, thou wilt be grieved. But who can withhold himself from speaking?
4:3  Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands.
4:4  Thy words have upheld the one that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.
4:5  But now that it is come upon thee, thou art grieved; it touches thee, and thou art troubled.
4:6  Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the integrity of thy ways?
4:7  Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? Or where were the righteous cut off?
4:8  Even as I have seen, those that plow iniquity and sow wickedness, reap the same.
4:9  By the breath of God they perish, and by the spirit of his anger they are consumed.
4:10  The roaring of the lion and the voice of the fierce lion and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
4:11  The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the stout lion’s whelps are scattered abroad.
4:12  Now the matter was also hidden from me, but my ear has perceived a little of it.
4:13  In imaginations of visions of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men,
4:14  fear came upon me and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.
4:15  Then a spirit passed before me which caused the hair of my flesh to stand up.
4:16  A ghost stood in front of me, whose face I did not recognize, and I heard it say,
4:17  Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his maker?
4:18  Behold, he put no trust in his slaves, and his angels he charged with folly.
4:19  How much more with those that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who shall be crushed by the moth!
4:20  They are destroyed from morning to evening; they perish for ever without anyone regarding it.
4:21  Does their beauty perish with them? They die and do not know.