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¹ Then responded Eliphaz the Temanite, and said: - ² If one attempt a word unto thee, wilt thou be impatient? But, to restrain speech, who, can endure?³ Lo! thou hast admonished many, and, slack hands, hast thou been wont to uphold:⁴ Him that was stumbling, have thy words raised up, and, sinking knees, hast thou strengthened.⁵ But, now, it cometh upon thee, and thou despairest, It smiteth even thee, and thou art dismayed.⁶ Is not, thy reverence, thy confidence? And is not, thy hope, the very integrity of thy ways?

⁷ Remember, I pray thee, who, being innocent, hath perished, or when, the upright, have been cut off.⁸ So far as I have seen, They who plow for iniquity and sow misery, reap the same:⁹ By the blast of GOD, they perish, And, by the breath of his nostrils, are they consumed:¹⁰ Notwithstanding the roaring of the lion, and the noise of the howling lion, yet, the teeth of the fierce lions, are broken:¹¹ The strong lion perishing for lack of prey, Even the whelps of the lioness, are scattered.

¹² But, unto me, something was brought by stealth, - and mine ear caught a whispering of the same:¹³ When there were thoughts, from visions of the night, - When deep sleep falleth upon men,¹⁴ Dread, came upon me, and trembling, The multitude of my bones, it put in dread:¹⁵ Then, a spirit, over my face, floated along, The hair of my flesh bristled-up:¹⁶ It stood still, but I could not distinguish its appearance, I looked, but there was no form before mine eyes, - A whispering voice, I heard: - -¹⁷ Shall, mortal man, be more just than GOD? Or a man be more pure than, his Maker?¹⁸ Lo! in his own servants, he trusteth not, and, his own messengers, he chargeth with error:¹⁹ How much more the dwellers in houses of clay, which, in the dust, have their foundation, which are crushed sooner than a moth:²⁰ Betwixt morning and evening, are they broken in pieces, With none to save, they utterly perish:²¹ Is not their tent-rope within them, torn away? They die, disrobed of wisdom!