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Eliphaz Speaks: The Innocent Prosper
Chapter 4
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Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:
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"If one ventures a word with you, will you be impatient? Yet who can keep from speaking?
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Behold, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened the weak hands.
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Your words have upheld him who was stumbling, and you have made firm the feeble knees.
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But now it has come to you, and you are impatient; it touches you, and you are dismayed.
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Is not your fear of God your confidence, and the integrity of your ways your hope?
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"Remember: who that was innocent ever perished? Or where were the upright cut off?
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As I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same.
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By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they are consumed.
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The roar of the lion, the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions are broken.
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The strong lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
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"Now a word was brought to me stealthily; my ear received the whisper of it.
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Amid thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,
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dread came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake.
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A spirit glided past my face; the hair of my flesh stood up.
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It stood still, but I could not discern its appearance. A form was before my eyes; there was silence, then I heard a voice:
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'Can mortal man be in the right before God? Can a man be pure before his Maker?
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Even in his servants he puts no trust, and his angels he charges with error;
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how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like the moth.
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Between morning and evening they are beaten to pieces; they perish forever without anyone regarding it.
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Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them, do they not die, and that without wisdom?'