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4:1  Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
4:2  “If we dare to converse with you, will you be impatient [or offended]? But who can restrain himself from speaking?
4:3  “Behold, you have admonished and instructed many, And you have strengthened weak hands.
4:4  “Your words have helped the one who was stumbling to stand, And you have strengthened feeble knees.
4:5  “But now adversity comes upon you, and you are impatient and intolerant; It touches you, and you are horrified.
4:6  “Is not your fear of God your confidence, And [is not] the integrity and uprightness of your ways your hope?
4:7  “Remember now, who, being innocent, ever perished? Or where [and in what circumstances] were those upright and in right standing with God destroyed?
4:8  “As I have seen, those who plow wickedness And those who sow trouble and harm harvest it.
4:9  “By the breath of God they perish, And by the blast of His anger they are 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 lion perishes for lack of prey, And the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
4:12  “Now a word was secretly brought to me, And my ear received a whisper of it.
4:13  “Amid disquieting thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falls on men,
4:14  Dread and trembling came upon me, Which made all my bones shake.
4:15  “Then a spirit passed before my face; The hair on my skin stood on end!
4:16  “The spirit stood still, but I could not discern its appearance; A form was before my eyes; There was silence, and then I heard a voice, saying:
4:17  ‘Can [mortal] man be just before God or be more righteous than He? Can a man be pure before his Maker or be more cleansed than He?
4:18  ‘God puts no trust or confidence, even in His [heavenly] servants, And He charges His angels with error.
4:19  ‘How much more [will He blame and charge] those who dwell in houses (bodies) of clay, Whose foundations are in the dust, Who are crushed like a moth.
4:20  ‘Between morning and evening they are broken in pieces and destroyed; Unobserved and unnoticed, they perish forever.
4:21  ‘Is not their tent-cord drawn up within them [so that the tent collapses]? Do they not die, and yet without [acquiring] wisdom?’