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