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| [1]And Eliphaz the Temanite answereth and saith: -- |
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| [2]Hath one tried a word with thee? -- Thou art weary! And to keep in words who is able? |
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| [3]Lo, thou hast instructed many, And feeble hands thou makest strong. |
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| [4]The stumbling one do thy words raise up, And bowing knees thou dost strengthen. |
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| [5]But now, it cometh in unto thee, And thou art weary; It striketh unto thee, and thou art troubled. |
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| [6]Is not thy reverence thy confidence? Thy hope -- the perfection of thy ways? |
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| [7]Remember, I pray thee, Who, being innocent, hath perished? And where have the upright been cut off? |
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| [8]As I have seen -- ploughers of iniquity, And sowers of misery, reap it! |
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| [9]From the breath of God they perish, And from the spirit of His anger consumed. |
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| [10]The roaring of a lion, And the voice of a fierce lion, And teeth of young lions have been broken. |
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| [11]An old lion is perishing without prey, And the whelps of the lioness do separate. |
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| [12]And unto me a thing is secretly brought, And receive doth mine ear a little of it. |
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| [13]In thoughts from visions of the night, In the falling of deep sleep on men, |
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| [14]Fear hath met me, and trembling, And the multitude of my bones caused to fear. |
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| [15]And a spirit before my face doth pass, Stand up doth the hair of my flesh; |
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| [16]It standeth, and I discern not its aspect, A similitude [is] over-against mine eyes, Silence! and a voice I hear: |
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| [17]`Is mortal man than God more righteous? Than his Maker is a man cleaner? |
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| [18]Lo, in His servants He putteth no credence, Nor in His messengers setteth praise.' |
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| [19]Also -- the inhabitants of houses of clay, (Whose foundation [is] in the dust, They bruise them before a moth.) |
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| [20]From morning to evening are beaten down, Without any regarding, for ever they perish. |
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| [21]Hath not their excellency been removed with them? They die, and not in wisdom! |
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