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1 - Then Eliphaz, the Themanite, answered, and said:

2 - If we begin to speak to thee, perhaps thou wilt take it ill; but who can withhold the words he hath conceived?

3 - Behold thou hast taught many, and thou hast strengthened the weary hands:

4 - Thy words have confirmed them that were staggering, and thou hast strengthened the trembling knees:

5 - But now the scourge is come upon thee, and thou faintest: It hath touched thee, and thou art troubled.

6 - Where is thy fear, thy fortitude, thy patience, and the perfection of thy ways?

7 - Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished being innocent? or when were the just destroyed?

8 - On the contrary, I have seen those who work iniquity, and sow sorrows, and reap them,

9 - Perishing by the blast of God, and consumed by the spirit of his wrath.

10 - The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the lioness, and the teeth of the whelps of lions, are broken:

11 - The tiger hath perished for want of prey, and the young lions are scattered abroad.

12 - Now there was a word spoken to me in private, and my ears by stealth, as it were, received the veins of its whisper.

13 - In the horror of a vision by night, when deep sleep is wont to hold men,

14 - Fear seized upon me, and trembling, and all my bones were affrighted:

15 - And when a spirit passed before me, the hair of my flesh stood up.

16 - There stood one whose countenance I knew not, an image before my eyes, and I heard the voice, as it were, of a gentle wind.

17 - Shall man be justified in comparison of God, or shall a man be more pure than his maker?

18 - Behold, they that serve him are not steadfast, and in his angels he found wickedness:

19 - How much more shall they that dwell in houses of clay, who have an earthly foundation, be consumed as with the moth?

20 - From morning till evening they shall be cut down: and because no one understandeth, they shall perish for ever.

21 - And they that shall be left, shall be taken away from them: they shall die, and not in wisdom.