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1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied: Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied: Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:
2 “If someone ventures a word with you, will you be impatient? But who can keep from speaking? “If one ventures a word with you, will you be wearied? Yet who can keep from speaking? “If one ventures a word with you, will you be impatient? Yet who can keep from speaking?
3 Think how you have instructed many, how you have strengthened feeble hands. Surely you have instructed many, and have strengthened their feeble hands. Behold, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened the weak hands.
4 Your words have supported those who stumbled; you have strengthened faltering knees. Your words have steadied those who stumbled; you have braced the knees that were buckling. Your words have upheld him who was stumbling, and you have made firm the feeble knees.
5 But now trouble comes to you, and you are discouraged; it strikes you, and you are dismayed. But now trouble has come upon you, and you are weary. It strikes you, and you are dismayed. But now it has come to you, and you are impatient; it touches you, and you are dismayed.
6 Should not your piety be your confidence and your blameless ways your hope? Is your reverence not your confidence, and the uprightness of your ways your hope? Is not your fear of God your confidence, and the integrity of your ways your hope?
7 “Consider now: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Where were the upright ever destroyed? Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed? “Remember: who that was innocent ever perished? Or where were the upright cut off?
8 As I have observed, those who plow evil and those who sow trouble reap it. As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same. As I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same.
9 At the breath of God they perish; at the blast of his anger they are no more. By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of His anger they are consumed. By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they are consumed.
10 The lions may roar and growl, yet the teeth of the great lions are broken. The lion may roar, and the fierce lion may growl, yet the teeth of the young lions are broken. The roar of the lion, the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions are broken.
11 The lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered. The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered. The strong lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
12 “A word was secretly brought to me, my ears caught a whisper of it. Now a word came to me secretly; my ears caught a whisper of it. “Now a word was brought to me stealthily; my ear received the whisper of it.
13 Amid disquieting dreams in the night, when deep sleep falls on people, In disquieting visions in the night, when deep sleep falls on men, Amid thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,
14 fear and trembling seized me and made all my bones shake. fear and trembling came over me and made all my bones shudder. dread came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake.
15 A spirit glided past my face, and the hair on my body stood on end. Then a spirit glided past my face, and the hair on my body bristled. A spirit glided past my face; the hair of my flesh stood up.
16 It stopped, but I could not tell what it was. A form stood before my eyes, and I heard a hushed voice: It stood still, but I could not discern its appearance; a form loomed before my eyes, and I heard a whispering voice: It stood still, but I could not discern its appearance. A form was before my eyes; there was silence, then I heard a voice:
17 Can a mortal be more righteous than God? Can even a strong man be more pure than his Maker? ‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker? ‘Can mortal man be in the right before God? Can a man be pure before his Maker?
18 If God places no trust in his servants, if he charges his angels with error, If God puts no trust in His servants, and He charges His angels with error, Even in his servants he puts no trust, and his angels he charges with error;
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! how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth! how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like the moth.
20 Between dawn and dusk they are broken to pieces; unnoticed, they perish forever. They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; unnoticed, they perish forever. Between morning and evening they are beaten to pieces; they perish forever without anyone regarding it.
21 Are not the cords of their tent pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?’ Are not their tent cords pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?’ Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them, do they not die, and that without wisdom?’
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