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1 | Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
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2 | If we essay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can refrain from speaking?
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3 | Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands.
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4 | Thy words have upheld him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.
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5 | But now it hath come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.
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6 | Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?
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7 | Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off;
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8 | Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
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9 | By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.
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10 | The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
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11 | The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.
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12 | Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and my ear received a small sound of it.
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13 | In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men.
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14 | Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.
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15 | Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up:
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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,
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17 | Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
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18 | Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly:
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19 | How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth?
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20 | They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.
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21 | Doth not their excellence which is in them depart? they die, even without wisdom.
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