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1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said: Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said: Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
2 If someone attempts a word with you, would you mind? How can anyone refrain from speaking? “If one ventures a word with you, will you be impatient? Yet who can keep from speaking? “If someone ventures a word with you, will you be impatient? But who can keep from speaking?
3 Look, you have instructed many, and made firm their feeble hands. Behold, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened the weak hands. Think how you have instructed many, how you have strengthened feeble hands.
4 Your words have upheld the stumbler; you have strengthened faltering knees. Your words have upheld him who was stumbling, and you have made firm the feeble knees. Your words have supported those who stumbled; you have strengthened faltering knees.
5 But now that it comes to you, you are impatient; when it touches you, you are dismayed. But now it has come to you, and you are impatient; it touches you, and you are dismayed. But now trouble comes to you, and you are discouraged; it strikes you, and you are dismayed.
6 Is not your piety a source of confidence, and your integrity of life your hope? Is not your fear of God your confidence, and the integrity of your ways your hope? Should not your piety be your confidence and your blameless ways your hope?
7 Reflect now, what innocent person perishes? Where are the upright destroyed? “Remember: who that was innocent ever perished? Or where were the upright cut off? “Consider now: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Where were the upright ever destroyed?
8 As I see it, those who plow mischief and sow trouble will reap them. As I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same. As I have observed, those who plow evil and those who sow trouble reap it.
9 By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his wrath they are consumed. By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they are consumed. At the breath of God they perish; at the blast of his anger they are no more.
10 Though the lion roars, though the king of beasts cries out, 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. The lions may roar and growl, yet the teeth of the great lions are broken.
11 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. The lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
12 A word was stealthily brought to me, my ear caught a whisper of it. “Now a word was brought to me stealthily; my ear received the whisper of it. “A word was secretly brought to me, my ears caught a whisper of it.
13 In my thoughts during visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on mortals, Amid thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, Amid disquieting dreams in the night, when deep sleep falls on people,
14 Fear came upon me, and shuddering, that terrified me to the bone. dread came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake. fear and trembling seized me and made all my bones shake.
15 Then a spirit passed before me, and the hair of my body stood on end. A spirit glided past my face; the hair of my flesh stood up. A spirit glided past my face, and the hair on my body stood on end.
16 It paused, but its likeness I could not recognize; a figure was before my eyes, in silence I heard a 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: It stopped, but I could not tell what it was. A form stood before my eyes, and I heard a hushed voice:
17 “Can anyone be more in the right than God? Can mortals be more blameless than their Maker? ‘Can mortal man be in the right before God? Can a man be pure before his Maker? Can a mortal be more righteous than God? Can even a strong man be more pure than his Maker?
18 Look, he puts no trust in his servants, and even with his messengers he finds fault. Even in his servants he puts no trust, and his angels he charges with error; If God places no trust in his servants, if he charges his angels with error,
19 How much more with those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed more easily than a moth! how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like the moth. how much more those who live in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who are crushed more readily than a moth!
20 Morning or evening they may be shattered; unnoticed, they perish forever. Between morning and evening they are beaten to pieces; they perish forever without anyone regarding it. Between dawn and dusk they are broken to pieces; unnoticed, they perish forever.
21 The pegs of their tent are plucked up; they die without knowing wisdom.” Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them, do they not die, and that without wisdom?’ Are not the cords of their tent pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?’
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