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4:1  Then Eliphaz, a native of Teman, responded:
4:2  If one tries to answer you, will you be annoyed? But who can hold words back?
4:3  Look, you’ve instructed many and given strength to drooping hands.
4:4  Your words have raised up the falling; you’ve steadied failing knees.
4:5  But now it comes to you, and you are dismayed; it has struck you, and you are frightened.
4:6  Isn’t your religion the source of your confidence; the integrity of your conduct, the source of your hope?
4:7  Think! What innocent person has ever perished? When have those who do the right thing been destroyed?
4:8  As I’ve observed, those who plow sin and sow trouble will harvest it.
4:9  When God breathes deeply, they perish; by a breath of his nostril they are annihilated.
4:10  The roar of a lion and snarl of the king of beasts— yet the teeth of lions are shattered;
4:11  the lion perishes without prey, and its cubs are scattered.
4:12  But a word sneaked up on me; my ears caught a hint of it.
4:13  In profound thoughts, visions of night, when deep sleep falls on people,
4:14  fear and dread struck me; all of my bones shook.
4:15  A breeze swept by my face; the hair of my skin bristled.
4:16  It stopped. I didn’t recognize its visible form, although a figure was in front of my eyes. Silence! Then I heard a voice:
4:17  “Can a human be more righteous than God, a person purer than their maker?”
4:18  If he doesn’t trust his servants and levels a charge against his messengers,
4:19  how much less those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in dust, and who are crushed like a moth?
4:20  They are smashed between morning and evening; they perish forever without anyone knowing.
4:21  Isn’t their tent cord pulled up? They die without wisdom.