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4:1  Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:
4:2  “If we attempt to commune with thee, wilt thou 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 him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.
4:5  But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.
4:6  Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness 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, they that plow iniquity and sow wickedness reap the same.
4:9  By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of His nostrils are they 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 perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion’s whelps are scattered abroad.
4:12  “Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof.
4:13  In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men,
4:14  fear came upon me and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.
4:15  Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up.
4:16  It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof; an image was before mine eyes. There was silence and I heard a voice, saying,
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 servants, and His angels He charged with folly:
4:19  How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth?
4:20  They are destroyed from morning to evening; they perish for ever without any regarding it.
4:21  Doth not their excellence which is in them go away? They die, even without wisdom.’