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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered: |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2"If someone should attempt a word with you, will you be impatient? But who can refrain from speaking? |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Look, you have instructed many; you have strengthened feeble hands. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Your words have supported those who stumbled, and you have strengthened the knees that gave way. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5But now the same thing comes to you, and you are discouraged; it strikes you, and you are terrified. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Is not your piety your confidence, and your blameless ways your hope? |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Call to mind now: Who, being innocent, ever perished? And where were upright people ever destroyed? |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Even as I have seen, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they are consumed. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10There is the roaring of the lion and the growling of the young lion, but the teeth of the young lions are broken. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11The mighty lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12"Now a word was secretly brought to me, and my ear caught a whisper of it. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13In the troubling thoughts of the dreams in the night when a deep sleep falls on men, |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14a trembling gripped me--and a terror!--and made all my bones shake. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Then a breath of air passes by my face; it makes the hair of my flesh stand up. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16It stands still, but I cannot recognize its appearance; an image is before my eyes, and I hear a murmuring voice: |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17"Is a mortal man righteous before God? Or a man pure before his Creator? |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18If God puts no trust in his servants and attributes folly to his angels, |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19how much more to those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth? |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20They are destroyed between morning and evening; they perish forever without anyone regarding it. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Is not their excess wealth taken away from them? They die, yet without attaining wisdom. |
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