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4:1  Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:
4:2  If someone attempts a word with you, would you mind? How can anyone refrain from speaking?
4:3  Look, you have instructed many, and made firm their feeble hands.
4:4  Your words have upheld the stumbler; you have strengthened faltering knees.
4:5  But now that it comes to you, you are impatient; when it touches you, you are dismayed.
4:6  Is not your piety a source of confidence, and your integrity of life your hope?
4:7  Reflect now, what innocent person perishes? Where are the upright destroyed?
4:8  As I see it, those who plow mischief and sow trouble will reap them.
4:9  By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his wrath they are consumed.
4:10  Though the lion roars, though the king of beasts cries out, yet the teeth of the young lions are broken;
4:11  The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
4:12  A word was stealthily brought to me, my ear caught a whisper of it.
4:13  In my thoughts during visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on mortals,
4:14  Fear came upon me, and shuddering, that terrified me to the bone.
4:15  Then a spirit passed before me, and the hair of my body stood on end.
4:16  It paused, but its likeness I could not recognize; a figure was before my eyes, in silence I heard a voice:
4:17  “Can anyone be more in the right than God? Can mortals be more blameless than their Maker?
4:18  Look, he puts no trust in his servants, and even with his messengers he finds fault.
4:19  How much more with those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed more easily than a moth!
4:20  Morning or evening they may be shattered; unnoticed, they perish forever.
4:21  The pegs of their tent are plucked up; they die without knowing wisdom.”