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4:1  Then Eliphaz the Temanite responded:
4:2  If someone ventures to have a word with you, will you grow impatient? But who can refrain from speaking up?
4:3  You yourself have instructed many, and you have strengthened weak hands.
4:4  Your words have raised up people who were stumbling, and you have given support to buckling knees.
4:5  But now that this has happened to you, you grow impatient. This strikes you and you are disturbed.
4:6  Shouldn’t your piety give you confidence? Don’t your blameless ways give you reason to hope?
4:7  Now remember this: Who has ever perished if he was innocent? Where were the upright ever erased?
4:8  This is what I have observed: Those who plow evil and sow trouble will reap the same.
4:9  By the breath of God they perish. By the blast from his nostrils they come to an end.
4:10  The lion roars, and the fierce lion growls, but the teeth of the young lion are broken.
4:11  The strong lion perishes from a lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
4:12  A word was delivered to me secretly. My ears caught a whisper of it.
4:13  In the middle of anxious thoughts arising from visions in the night, at the time when deep sleep falls upon people,
4:14  terror and trembling came over me and made all my bones tremble.
4:15  A spirit passed in front of my face. The hair on my body stood on end.
4:16  A figure stood in front of me, but I could not tell what it was. A form stood before my eyes, and I heard a quiet voice say,
4:17  “Can a person be righteous before God? Can a man be pure before his Maker?”
4:18  If God does not trust his own servants, if he charges his messengers with error,
4:19  how much more those who dwell in clay houses, whose foundations are in the dust, who are crushed more quickly than a moth!
4:20  From dawn to dusk they are smashed to pieces. They perish forever, and no one even notices.
4:21  Won’t the ropes that hold up their tents be pulled up, so that they die without gaining wisdom?