Job 4:1 ←
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
Job 4:2 ←
If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking?
Job 4:3 ←
Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands.
Job 4:4 ←
Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.
Job 4:5 ←
But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.
Job 4:6 ←
Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?
Job 4:7 ←
Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?
Job 4:8 ←
Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
Job 4:9 ←
By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.
Job 4:10 ←
The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
Job 4:11 ←
The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.
Job 4:12 ←
Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof.
Job 4:13 ←
In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men,
Job 4:14 ←
Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.
Job 4:15 ←
Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up:
Job 4:16 ←
It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying,
Job 4:17 ←
Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
Job 4:18 ←
Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly:
Job 4:19 ←
How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
Job 4:20 ←
They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.
Job 4:21 ←
Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.
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