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1 - Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,

2 - [If] we essay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can refrain from speaking?

3 - Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands.

4 - Thy words have upheld him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.

5 - But now it hath come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.

6 - [Is] not [this] thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?

7 - Remember, I pray thee, who [ever] perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off;

8 - Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.

9 - By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.

10 - The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.

11 - The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.

12 - Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and my ear received a small sound of it.

13 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men.

14 - Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.

15 - Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up:

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],

17 - Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?

18 - Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly:

19 - How much less [in] them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation [is] in the dust, [who] are crushed before the moth?

20 - They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding [it].

21 - Doth not their excellence [which is] in them depart? they die, even without wisdom.