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