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4:1  Job, will you be annoyed if I speak? I can't keep quiet any longer.
4:2  Job, will you be annoyed if I speak? I can't keep quiet any longer.
4:3  You have taught many people and given strength to feeble hands.
4:4  When someone stumbled, weak and tired, your words encouraged him to stand.
4:5  Now it's your turn to be in trouble, and you are too stunned to face it.
4:6  You worshiped God, and your life was blameless; and so you should have confidence and hope.
4:7  Think back now. Name a single case where someone righteous met with disaster.
4:8  I have seen people plow fields of evil and plant wickedness like seed; now they harvest wickedness and evil.
4:9  Like a storm, God destroys them in his anger.
4:10  The wicked roar and growl like lions, but God silences them and breaks their teeth.
4:11  Like lions with nothing to kill and eat, they die, and all their children are scattered.
4:12  Once a message came quietly, so quietly I could hardly hear it.
4:13  Like a nightmare it disturbed my sleep.
4:14  I trembled and shuddered; my whole body shook with fear.
4:15  A light breeze touched my face, and my skin crawled with fright.
4:16  I could see something standing there; I stared, but couldn't tell what it was. Then I heard a voice out of the silence:
4:17  “Can anyone be righteous in the sight of God or be pure before his Creator?
4:18  God does not trust his heavenly servants; he finds fault even with his angels.
4:19  Do you think he will trust a creature of clay, a thing of dust that can be crushed like a moth?
4:20  We may be alive in the morning, but die unnoticed before evening comes.
4:21  All that we have is taken away; we die, still lacking wisdom.”