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| | Job 4:1 | Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
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| | Job 4:2 | "If someone ventures a word with you, will you be impatient? But who can keep from speaking?
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| | Job 4:3 | Think how you have instructed many, how you have strengthened feeble hands.
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| | Job 4:4 | Your words have supported those who stumbled; you have strengthened faltering knees.
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| | Job 4:5 | But now trouble comes to you, and you are discouraged; it strikes you, and you are dismayed.
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| | Job 4:6 | Should not your piety be your confidence and your blameless ways your hope?
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| | Job 4:7 | "Consider now: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Where were the upright ever destroyed?
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| | Job 4:8 | As I have observed, those who plow evil and those who sow trouble reap it.
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| | Job 4:9 | At the breath of God they are destroyed; at the blast of his anger they perish.
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| | Job 4:10 | The lions may roar and growl, yet the teeth of the great lions are broken.
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| | Job 4:11 | The lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
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| | Job 4:12 | "A word was secretly brought to me, my ears caught a whisper of it.
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| | Job 4:13 | Amid disquieting dreams in the night, when deep sleep falls on men,
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| | Job 4:14 | fear and trembling seized me and made all my bones shake.
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| | Job 4:15 | A spirit glided past my face, and the hair on my body stood on end.
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| | Job 4:16 | It stopped, but I could not tell what it was. A form stood before my eyes, and I heard a hushed voice:
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| | Job 4:17 | `Can a mortal be more righteous than God? Can a man be more pure than his Maker?
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| | Job 4:18 | If God places no trust in his servants, if he charges his angels with error,
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| | Job 4:19 | how much more those who live in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who are crushed more readily than a moth!
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| | Job 4:20 | Between dawn and dusk they are broken to pieces; unnoticed, they perish forever.
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| | Job 4:21 | Are not the cords of their tent pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?'
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