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Job 4
Then Eliphaz the Themanite answered, and said:
If we begin to speak to thee, perhaps thou wilt take
it ill, but who can withhold the words he hath conceived?
Behold thou hast taught many, and thou hast strengthened
the weary hands:
Thy words have confirmed them that were staggering,
and thou hast strengthened the trembling knees:
But now the scourge is come upon thee, and thou faintest:
it hath touched thee, and thou art troubled.
Where is thy fear, thy fortitude, thy patience, and
the perfection of thy ways?
Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished being innocent?
or when were the just destroyed?
On the contrary I have seen those who work iniquity,
and sow sorrows, and reap them,
Perishing by the blast of God, and consumed by the spirit
of his wrath.
The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the lioness,
and the teeth of the whelps of lions are broken:
The tiger hath perished for want of prey, and the young
lions are scattered abroad.
Now there was a word spoken to me in private, and my
ears by stealth as it were received the veins of its
whisper.
In the horror of a vision by night, when deep sleep
is wont to hold men,
Fear seized upon me, and trembling, and all my bones
were affrighted:
And when a spirit passed before me, the hair of my flesh
stood up.
There stood one whose countenance I knew not, an image
before my eyes, and I heard the voice as it were of
a gentle wind:
Shall man be justified in comparison of God, or shall
a man be more pure than his maker?
Behold they that serve him are not steadfast, and in
his angels he found wickedness:
How much more shall they that dwell in houses of clay,
who have an earthly foundation, be consumed as with
the moth?
From morning till evening they shall be cut down: and
because no one understandeth, they shall perish for
ever.
And they that shall be left, shall be taken away from
them: they shall die, and not in wisdom.
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