Job 4

Eliphaz charges Job with impatience, and pretends that God never afflicts the innocent.

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Then Eliphaz the Themanite answered, and said:

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If we begin to speak to thee, perhaps thou wilt take it ill, but who can withhold the words he hath conceived?

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Behold thou hast taught many, and thou hast strengthened the weary hands:

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Thy words have confirmed them that were staggering, and thou hast strengthened the trembling knees:

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But now the scourge is come upon thee, and thou faintest: it hath touched thee, and thou art troubled.

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Where is thy fear, thy fortitude, thy patience, and the perfection of thy ways?

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Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished being innocent? or when were the just destroyed?

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On the contrary I have seen those who work iniquity, and sow sorrows, and reap them,

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Perishing by the blast of God, and consumed by the spirit of his wrath.

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The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the lioness, and the teeth of the whelps of lions are broken:

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The tiger hath perished for want of prey, and the young lions are scattered abroad.

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Now there was a word spoken to me in private, and my ears by stealth as it were received the veins of its whisper.

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In the horror of a vision by night, when deep sleep is wont to hold men,

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Fear seized upon me, and trembling, and all my bones were affrighted:

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And when a spirit passed before me, the hair of my flesh stood up.

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There stood one whose countenance I knew not, an image before my eyes, and I heard the voice as it were of a gentle wind:

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Shall man be justified in comparison of God, or shall a man be more pure than his maker?

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Behold they that serve him are not steadfast, and in his angels he found wickedness:

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How much more shall they that dwell in houses of clay, who have an earthly foundation, be consumed as with the moth?

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From morning till evening they shall be cut down: and because no one understandeth, they shall perish for ever.

[17] "Shall man be justified in comparison of God": These are the words which Eliphaz had heard from an angel, which, ver. 15, he calls a spirit.

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And they that shall be left, shall be taken away from them: they shall die, and not in wisdom.

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