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¹ Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said:² If one venture a word unto thee, wilt thou be weary? But who can withhold himself from speaking?³ Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands.⁴ Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.⁵ But now it is come upon thee, and thou art weary; it toucheth thee, and thou art affrighted.⁶ Is not thy fear of God thy confidence, and thy hope the integrity of thy ways?

⁷ Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?⁸ According as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow mischief, reap the same.⁹ By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of His anger are they consumed.¹⁰ The lion roareth, and the fierce lion howleth--yet the teeth of the young lions are broken.¹¹ The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the whelps of the lioness are scattered abroad.

¹² Now a word was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a whisper thereof.¹³ In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men,¹⁴ Fear came upon me, and trembling, and all my bones were made to shake.¹⁵ Then a spirit passed before my face, that made the hair of my flesh to stand up.¹⁶ It stood still, but I could not discern the appearance thereof; a form was before mine eyes; ¹⁷ 'Shall mortal man be just before God? Shall a man be pure before his Maker?¹⁸ Behold, He putteth no trust in His servants, and His angels He chargeth with folly;¹⁹ How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!²⁰ Betwixt morning and evening they are shattered; they perish for ever without any regarding it.²¹ Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.'