Job 4
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Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied: Begin Abide·
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“If one ventures a word with you, will you be wearied? Yet who can keep from speaking? Begin Abide·
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Surely you have instructed many, and have strengthened their feeble hands. Begin Abide·
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Your words have steadied those who stumbled; you have braced the knees that were buckling. Begin Abide·
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But now trouble has come upon you, and you are weary. It strikes you, and you are dismayed. Begin Abide·
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Is your reverence not your confidence, and the uprightness of your ways your hope? Begin Abide·
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Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed? Begin Abide·
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As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same. Begin Abide·
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By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of His anger they are consumed. Begin Abide·
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The lion may roar, and the fierce lion may growl, yet the teeth of the young lions are broken. Begin Abide·
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The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered. Begin Abide·
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Now a word came to me secretly; my ears caught a whisper of it. Begin Abide·
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In disquieting visions in the night, when deep sleep falls on men, Begin Abide·
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fear and trembling came over me and made all my bones shudder. Begin Abide·
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Then a spirit glided past my face, and the hair on my body bristled. Begin Abide·
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It stood still, but I could not discern its appearance; a form loomed before my eyes, and I heard a whispering voice: Begin Abide·
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‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker? Begin Abide·
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If God puts no trust in His servants, and He charges His angels with error, Begin Abide·
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how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth! Begin Abide·
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They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; unnoticed, they perish forever. Begin Abide·
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Are not their tent cords pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?’ Begin Abide·