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Job 4 Verses
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Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied to Job: |
2
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"Will you be patient and let me say a word? For who could keep from speaking out? |
3
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"In the past you have encouraged many people; you have strengthened those who were weak. |
4
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Your words have supported those who were falling; you encouraged those with shaky knees. |
5
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But now when trouble strikes, you lose heart. You are terrified when it touches you. |
6
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Doesn't your reverence for God give you confidence? Doesn't your life of integrity give you hope? |
7
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"Stop and think! Do the innocent die? When have the upright been destroyed? |
8
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My experience shows that those who plant trouble and cultivate evil will harvest the same. |
9
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A breath from God destroys them. They vanish in a blast of his anger. |
10
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The lion roars and the wildcat snarls, but the teeth of strong lions will be broken. |
11
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The fierce lion will starve for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness will be scattered. |
12
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"This truth was given to me in secret, as though whispered in my ear. |
13
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It came to me in a disturbing vision at night, when people are in a deep sleep. |
14
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Fear gripped me, and my bones trembled. |
15
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A spirit swept past my face, and my hair stood on end. |
16
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The spirit stopped, but I couldn't see its shape. There was a form before my eyes. In the silence I heard a voice say, |
17
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'Can a mortal be innocent before God? Can anyone be pure before the Creator?' |
18
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"If God does not trust his own angels and has charged his messengers with foolishness, |
19
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how much less will he trust people made of clay! They are made of dust, crushed as easily as a moth. |
20
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They are alive in the morning but dead by evening, gone forever without a trace. |
21
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Their tent-cords are pulled and the tent collapses, and they die in ignorance. |