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Job 4
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Chapter 4
Confidence in God
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Eliphaz of Teman spoke next. He said:
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If one should address a word to you, will you endure it? Yet who can keep silent?
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Many another, once, you schooled, giving strength to feeble hands;
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your words set right whoever wavered, and strengthened every failing knee.
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And now your turn has come, and you lose patience too; now it touches you, and you are overwhelmed.
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Does not your piety give you confidence, your blameless life not give you hope?
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Can you recall a guiltless man that perished, or have you ever seen good men brought to nothing?
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I speak of what I know: those who plough iniquity and sow the seeds of grief reap a harvest of the same kind.
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A breath from God will bring them to destruction, a blast of his anger will wipe them out.
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The lion’s roar, his savage growls, like the fangs of lion cubs are broken off.
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For lack of prey the lion dies at last, and the whelps of his lioness are scattered.
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Now, I have had a secret revelation, a whisper has come to my ears.
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At the hour when dreams master the mind, and slumber lies heavy on man,
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a shiver of horror ran through me, and my bones quaked with fear.
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A breath slid over my face, the hairs of my body bristled.
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Someone stood there – I could not see his face, but the form remained before me. Silence – and then I heard a Voice,
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‘Was ever any man found blameless in the presence of God, or faultless in the presence of his Maker?
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In his own servants, God puts no trust, and even with his angels he has fault to find.
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What then of those who live in houses of clay, who are founded on dust? They are crushed as easily as a moth,
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one day is enough to grind them to powder. They vanish for ever, and no one remembers them.
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Their tent-peg is snatched from them, and they die for lack of wisdom.’
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