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1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied to Job: Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said: Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
2 “Will you be patient and let me say a word? For who could keep from speaking out? “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 “In the past you have encouraged many people; you have strengthened those who were weak. 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 supported those who were falling; you encouraged those with shaky 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 when trouble strikes, you lose heart. You are terrified when it touches you. 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 Doesn’t your reverence for God give you confidence? Doesn’t your life of integrity give you 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 “Stop and think! Do the innocent die? When have the upright been 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 My experience shows that those who plant trouble and cultivate evil will harvest the same. 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 A breath from God destroys them. They vanish in a blast of his anger. 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 The lion roars and the wildcat snarls, but the teeth of strong lions will be 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 fierce lion will starve for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness will be 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 “This truth was given to me in secret, as though whispered in my ear. “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 It came to me in a disturbing vision at night, when people are in a deep sleep. 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 gripped me, and my bones trembled. dread came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake. fear and trembling seized me and made all my bones shake.
15 A spirit swept past my face, and my hair 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 The spirit stopped, but I couldn’t see its shape. There was a form before my eyes. In the silence I heard a voice say, 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 a mortal be innocent before God? Can anyone be pure before the Creator?’ ‘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 “If God does not trust his own angels and has charged his messengers with foolishness, 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 less will he trust people made of clay! They are made of dust, crushed as easily as 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 They are alive in the morning but dead by evening, gone forever without a trace. 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 Their tent-cords are pulled and the tent collapses, and they die in ignorance. 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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