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| | Job 4:1 | Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
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| | Job 4:2 | "If one ventures a word with you, will you become impatient? But who can refrain from speaking?
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| | Job 4:3 | "Behold you have admonished many, And you have strengthened weak hands.
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| | Job 4:4 | "Your words have helped the tottering to stand, And you have strengthened feeble knees.
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| | Job 4:5 | "But now it has come to you, and you are impatient; It touches you, and you are dismayed.
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| | Job 4:6 | "Is not your fear of God your confidence, And the integrity of your ways your hope?
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| | Job 4:7 | "Remember now, who ever perished being innocent? Or where were the upright destroyed?
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| | Job 4:8 | "According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity And those who sow trouble harvest it.
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| | Job 4:9 | "By the breath of God they perish, And by the blast of His anger they come to an end.
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| | Job 4:10 | "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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| | Job 4:11 | "The lion perishes for lack of prey, And the whelps of the lioness are scattered.
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| | Job 4:12 | "Now a word was brought to me stealthily, And my ear received a whisper of it.
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| | Job 4:13 | "Amid disquieting thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falls on men,
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| | Job 4:14 | Dread came upon me, and trembling, And made all my bones shake.
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| | Job 4:15 | "Then a spirit passed by my face; The hair of my flesh bristled up.
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| | Job 4:16 | "It stood still, but I could not discern its appearance; A form was before my eyes; There was silence, then I heard a voice:
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| | Job 4:17 | 'Can mankind be just before God? Can a man be pure before his Maker?
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| | Job 4:18 | 'He puts no trust even in His servants; And against His angels He charges error.
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| | Job 4:19 | 'How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before the moth!
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| | Job 4:20 | 'Between morning and evening they are broken in pieces; Unobserved, they perish forever.
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| | Job 4:21 | 'Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them? They die, yet without wisdom.'
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| Scripture quotations taken from the NASB. |
