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4:1  Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered:
4:2  “If one attempts a word with you, will you be impatient? But who can keep from speaking?
4:3  Surely you have instructed many, and you have strengthened the weak hands.
4:4  Your words have raised up him who was falling, and you have fortified the feeble knees.
4:5  But now it comes upon you, and you are weary; it reaches even you, and you are terrified.
4:6  Is not your reverence your confidence? And the integrity of your ways your hope?
4:7  “Remember now, who being innocent ever perished? Or where were the upright ever wiped out?
4:8  Just like I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble, reap the same.
4:9  By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of His anger they are destroyed.
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 perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
4:12  “Now a word was brought to me secretly, and my ear received a whisper of it.
4:13  Amid disquieting thoughts from night visions, when deep sleep falls on mortals,
4:14  terror and trembling came to me, which made all my bones shake.
4:15  A breath of wind was passing before my face, and the hair on my body was standing up.
4:16  It stood still, but I could not recognize its appearance; a form was in front of my eyes, there was stillness, then I heard a voice saying:
4:17  ‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God? Can a man be more pure than his Maker?
4:18  He does not trust in His servants, and He charges His angels with error;
4:19  Even more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth.
4:20  They are broken in pieces from morning to evening; they perish forever without anyone regarding it.
4:21  Are not their tent ropes plucked up, so they die, even without wisdom?’