| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2"If one ventures a word with you, will you become impatient? But who can refrain from speaking? |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3"Behold you have admonished many, And you have strengthened weak hands. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4"Your words have helped the tottering to stand, And you have strengthened feeble knees. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5"But now it has come to you, and you are impatient; It touches you, and you are dismayed. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6"Is not your fear of God your confidence, And the integrity of your ways your hope? |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7"Remember now, who ever perished being innocent? Or where were the upright destroyed? |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8"According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity And those who sow trouble harvest it. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9"By the breath of God they perish, And by the blast of His anger they come to an end. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10"The roaring of the lion and the voice of the fierce lion, And the teeth of the young lions are broken. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11"The lion perishes for lack of prey, And the whelps of the lioness are scattered. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12"Now a word was brought to me stealthily, And my ear received a whisper of it. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13"Amid disquieting thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falls on men, |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Dread came upon me, and trembling, And made all my bones shake. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15"Then a spirit passed by my face; The hair of my flesh bristled up. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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: |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17'Can mankind be just before God? Can a man be pure before his Maker? |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18'He puts no trust even in His servants; And against His angels He charges error. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19'How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before the moth! |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20'Between morning and evening they are broken in pieces; Unobserved, they perish forever. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21'Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them? They die, yet without wisdom.' |
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