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4:1  Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered:
4:2  “If someone tried to speak with you, would you be upset? I cannot keep from speaking.
4:3  Think about the many people you have taught and the weak hands you have made strong.
4:4  Your words have comforted those who fell, and you have strengthened those who could not stand.
4:5  But now trouble comes to you, and you are discouraged; trouble hits you, and you are terrified.
4:6  You should have confidence because you respect God; you should have hope because you are innocent.
4:7  “Remember that the innocent will not die; honest people will never be destroyed.
4:8  I have noticed that people who plow evil and plant trouble, harvest it.
4:9  God’s breath destroys them, and a blast of his anger kills them.
4:10  Lions may roar and growl, but when the teeth of a strong lion are broken,
4:11  that lion dies of hunger. The cubs of the mother lion are scattered.
4:12  “A word was brought to me in secret, and my ears heard a whisper of it.
4:13  It was during a nightmare when people are in deep sleep.
4:14  I was trembling with fear; all my bones were shaking.
4:15  A spirit glided past my face, and the hair on my body stood on end.
4:16  The spirit stopped, but I could not see what it was. A shape stood before my eyes, and I heard a quiet voice.
4:17  It said, ‘Can a human be more right than God? Can a person be pure before his maker?
4:18  God does not trust his angels; he blames them for mistakes.
4:19  So he puts even more blame on people who live in clay houses, whose foundations are made of dust, who can be crushed like a moth.
4:20  Between dawn and sunset many people are broken to pieces; without being noticed, they die and are gone forever.
4:21  The ropes of their tents are pulled up, and they die without wisdom.’