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¹ Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, and sayde,² If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieued? but who can withholde himselfe from speaking?³ Behold, thou hast taught many, and hast strengthened the wearie hands.⁴ Thy wordes haue confirmed him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the weake knees.⁵ But now it is come vpon thee, and thou art grieued: it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.⁶ Is not this thy feare, thy confidence, thy pacience, and the vprightnesse of thy wayes?

⁷ Remember, I pray thee: who euer perished, being an innocent? or where were the vpright destroyed?⁸ As I haue seene, they that plow iniquitie, and sowe wickednesse, reape the same.⁹ With the blast of God they perish, and with the breath of his nostrels are they cosumed.¹⁰ The roaring of the Lion, and the voyce of the Lionesse, & the teeth of the Lions whelpes are broken.¹¹ The Lyon perisheth for lacke of pray, and the Lyons whelpes are scattered abroade.

¹² But a thing was brought to me secretly, and mine eare hath receiued a litle thereof.¹³ In the thoughtes of ye visions of the night, when sleepe falleth on men,¹⁴ Feare came vpon me, & dread which made all my bones to tremble.¹⁵ And the wind passed before me, and made the heares of my flesh to stande vp.¹⁶ Then stoode one, and I knewe not his face: an image was before mine eyes, and in silence heard I a voyce, saying,¹⁷ Shall man be more iust then God? or shall a man be more pure then his maker?¹⁸ Beholde, he founde no stedfastnesse in his Seruants, and laid follie vpon his Angels.¹⁹ Howe much more in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which shalbe destroyed before the moth?²⁰ They be destroyed from the morning vnto the euening: they perish for euer, without regarde.²¹ Doeth not their dignitie goe away with them? do they not die, & that without wisdom?