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4:1  Then Eliphaz the Temanite responded and said:
4:2  “If one attempts a word with you, will you become impatient? But who can keep from speaking?
4:3  Behold, you have instructed many; you have strengthened weak hands.
4:4  Your words have supported those who stumbled, and strengthened buckling knees.
4:5  Yet now it has come to you, and you are discouraged; it strikes you, and you are dismayed.
4:6  Is not your piety your confidence, the integrity of your ways your hope?
4:7  Reflect now: Who, being innocent, ever perished? And where were the upright destroyed?
4:8  As I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow harm, reap them.
4:9  By the breath of God they perish; by the blast of His anger they vanish.
4:10  The lion may roar and the cub growl, but the teeth of young lions are broken.
4:11  The mighty lion perishes for lack of prey and the lioness’ cubs are scattered.
4:12  Now a word was secretly brought to me, and my ear caught a whisper of it.
4:13  Amid unsettling visions in the night, when a deep sleep falls on men,
4:14  dread and trembling seized me, and made my bones shake.
4:15  Then a spirit brushed over my face, and the hair of my flesh stood on end.
4:16  It stood still, but I could not recognize its appearance, A form was before my eyes and I heard a murmur, a voice:
4:17  ‘Can a mortal be righteous before God; or a man pure before his Creator?
4:18  If He puts no trust in His servants and accuses His angels of error,
4:19  how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth?
4:20  From morning until evening they are beaten into pieces— unnoticed, they perish forever.
4:21  Is not their tent cord pulled out, so that they die without wisdom.’”