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1 Then Eliphaz the Thaemanite answered and said, Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said: Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
2 Hast thou been often spoken to in distress? but who shall endure the force of thy words? “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 For whereas thou hast instructed many, and hast strengthened the hands of the weak one, 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 and hast supported the failing with words, and hast imparted courage to feeble 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 Yet now that pain has come upon thee, and touched thee, thou art troubled. 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 thy fear founded in folly, thy hope also, and the mischief of thy way? 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 Remember then who has perished, being pure? or when were the true-hearted utterly 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 Accordingly as I have seen men ploughing barren places, and they that sow them will reap sorrows for themselves. 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 They shall perish by the command of the Lord, and shall be utterly consumed by the breath of his wrath. 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 strength of the lion, and the voice of the lioness, and the exulting cry of serpents are quenched. 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 has perished for want of food, and the lions' whelps have forsaken one another. 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 But if there had been any truth in thy words, none of these evils would have befallen thee. Shall not mine ear receive excellent revelations from him? “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 But as when terror falls upon men, with dread and a sound in the night, 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 horror and trembling seized me, and caused all my bones greatly to shake. dread came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake. fear and trembling seized me and made all my bones shake.
15 And a spirit came before my face; and my hair and flesh quivered. 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 I arose and perceived it not: I looked, and there, was no form before my eyes: but I only heard a breath and a voice, saying , 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 What, shall a mortal be pure before the Lord? or a man be blameless in regard to his works? ‘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 Whereas he trust not in his servants, and perceives perverseness in his angels. 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 But as for them that dwell in houses of clay, of whom we also are formed of the same clay, he smites them like 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 And from the morning to evening they no longer exist: they have perished, because they cannot help themselves. 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 For he blows upon them, and they are withered: they have perished for lack of 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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