1: Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, |
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2: If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but
who can withhold himself from speaking? |
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3:
Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened
the weak hands. |
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4: Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast
strengthened the feeble knees. |
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5: But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth
thee, and thou art troubled. |
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6: Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the
uprightness of thy ways? |
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7: Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or
where were the righteous cut off? |
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8: Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow
wickedness, reap the same. |
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9: By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his
nostrils are they consumed. |
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10: The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion,
and the teeth of the young lions, are broken. |
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11: The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's
whelps are scattered abroad. |
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12: Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received
a little thereof. |
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13: In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep
falleth on men, |
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14: Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to
shake. |
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15: Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh
stood up: |
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16: It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an
image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice,
saying, |
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17: Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more
pure than his maker? |
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18: Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he
charged with folly: |
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19: How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose
foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth? |
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20: They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for
ever without any regarding it. |
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21: Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die,
even without wisdom. |