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¹ Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, and said,² If one assay to commune with you, will you be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?³ Look, you have instructed many, And you have strengthened the weak hands.⁴ Your words have upheld him that was falling, And you have made firm the feeble knees.⁵ But now it has come to you, and you faint; It touches you, and you are troubled.⁶ Isn't your fear [of God] your confidence, [And] the integrity of your ways your hope?

⁷ Remember, I pray you, who [ever] perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?⁸ According to as I have seen, those that plow iniquity, And sow trouble, reap the same.⁹ By the breath of God they perish, And by the blast of his anger are they consumed.¹⁰ The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, And the teeth of the young lions, are broken.¹¹ The old lion perishes for lack of prey, And the whelps of the lioness are scattered abroad.

¹² Now a thing was secretly brought to me, And my ear received a whisper thereof.¹³ In thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falls on men,¹⁴ Fear came on me, and trembling, Which made all my bones to shake.¹⁵ Then a spirit passed before my face; The hair of my flesh stood up.¹⁶ It stood still, but I could not discern the appearance thereof; A form was before my eyes: [There was] silence, and I heard a voice [saying],¹⁷ Shall common man be more just than God? Shall [noble] man be more pure than his Maker?¹⁸ Look, he puts no trust in his slaves; And his angels he charges with folly:¹⁹ How much more those that dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before the moth!²⁰ Between morning and evening they are destroyed: They perish forever without any regarding it.²¹ Isn't their tent-cord plucked up inside them? They die, and that without wisdom.