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Job 4 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

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