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¹ Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,² [If] we essay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can refrain from speaking?³ Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands.⁴ Thy words have upheld him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.⁵ But now it hath come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.⁶ [Is] not [this] thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?

⁷ Remember, I pray thee, who [ever] perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off;⁸ Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.⁹ By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils 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 perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.

¹² Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and my ear received a small sound of it.¹³ In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men.¹⁴ Fear came upon 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 its form: an image [was] before my eyes, [there was] silence, and I heard a voice, [saying],¹⁷ Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?¹⁸ Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly:¹⁹ How much less [in] them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation [is] in the dust, [who] are crushed before the moth?²⁰ They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding [it].²¹ Doth not their excellence [which is] in them depart? they die, even without wisdom.