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4:1  Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
4:2  Should anyone try to speak with you when you are exhausted? Yet who can keep from speaking?
4:3  Indeed, you have instructed many and have strengthened weak hands.
4:4  Your words have steadied the one who was stumbling and braced the knees that were buckling.
4:5  But now that this has happened to you, you have become exhausted. It strikes you, and you are dismayed.
4:6  Isn't your piety your confidence, and the integrity of your life your hope?
4:7  Consider: who has perished when he was innocent? Where have the honest been destroyed?
4:8  In my experience, those who plow injustice and those who sow trouble reap the same.
4:9  They perish at a single blast from God and come to an end by the breath of His nostrils.
4:10  The lion may roar and the fierce lion growl, but the fangs of young lions are broken.
4:11  The strong lion dies if it catches no prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
4:12  A word was brought to me in secret; my ears caught a whisper of it.
4:13  Among unsettling thoughts from visions in the night, when deep sleep descends on men,
4:14  fear and trembling came over me and made all my bones shake.
4:15  A wind passed by me, and I shuddered with fear.
4:16  A figure stood there, but I could not recognize its appearance; a form loomed before my eyes. I heard a quiet voice:
4:17  "Can a person be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?"
4:18  If God puts no trust in His servants and He charges His angels with foolishness,
4:19  how much more those who dwell in clay houses, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth!
4:20  They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; they perish forever while no one notices.
4:21  Are their tent cords not pulled up? They die without wisdom.