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1In reply, Eliphaz from Teman answered: | 1Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied: |
2"Will you get offended if somebody tries to talk to you? Who can keep from speaking at a time like this? | 2"If someone ventures a word with you, will you be impatient? But who can keep from speaking? |
3Look! You've admonished many people, and you've strengthened feeble hands. | 3Think how you have instructed many, how you have strengthened feeble hands. |
4A word from you has supported those who have stumbled, and has strengthened faltering knees. | 4Your words have supported those who stumbled; you have strengthened faltering knees. |
5"But now it's your turn, and you're the one who is worn out! Now it's striking you, and you're dismayed! | 5But now trouble comes to you, and you are discouraged; it strikes you, and you are dismayed. |
6"Your fear of God has been your confidence, hasn't it? The integrity of your life has been your hope, hasn't it? | 6Should not your piety be your confidence and your blameless ways your hope? |
7Now please think: Who has ever perished when they're innocent? Where have the upright been destroyed? | 7"Consider now: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Where were the upright ever destroyed? |
8It's been my experience that those who plow the soil of iniquity and those who sow the seed of trouble will reap their harvest! | 8As I have observed, those who plow evil and those who sow trouble reap it. |
9They perish by the breath of God; they are consumed by the storm that is his anger. | 9At the breath of God they perish; at the blast of his anger they are no more. |
10"The lioness may roar, and the lion cub may growl; but even the ivory teeth of the full grown lion are broken. | 10The lions may roar and growl, yet the teeth of the great lions are broken. |
11Full grown lions die when they cannot find prey; that's when the lion cubs are scattered. | 11The lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered. |
12"A message was confided to me; my ear caught a whisper of it. | 12"A word was secretly brought to me, my ears caught a whisper of it. |
13Disquieting thoughts from dreams at night; when deep sleep falls on everyone. | 13Amid disquieting dreams in the night, when deep sleep falls on people, |
14A fear fell upon me, along with trembling that caused all my bones to shake in terror. | 14fear and trembling seized me and made all my bones shake. |
15A spirit glided past me and made the hair on my skin to bristle. | 15A spirit glided past my face, and the hair on my body stood on end. |
16It remained standing, but I couldn't recognize its appearance. A form appeared before my eyes; At first there was silence, and then this voice: | 16It stopped, but I could not tell what it was. A form stood before my eyes, and I heard a hushed voice: |
17Can a mortal person be more righteous than God? Or can the purity of the valiant exceed that of his maker?' | 17Can a mortal be more righteous than God? Can even a strong man be more pure than his Maker? |
18"Indeed, since he doesn't trust his servants, since he charges his angels with error, | 18If God places no trust in his servants, if he charges his angels with error, |
19how much less confidence does he have in those who dwell in houses of clay; who were formed from a foundation in dust and can perish like a moth? | 19how much more those who live in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who are crushed more readily than a moth! |
20They are defeated between morning and evening; they perish forever—and no one notices! | 20Between dawn and dusk they are broken to pieces; unnoticed, they perish forever. |
21Their wealth perishes with them, doesn't it? They die, and do so without having wisdom, don't they?" | 21Are not the cords of their tent pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?' |
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