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Job 4

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¹ Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

² Should anyone try to speak with you when you are exhausted? Yet who can keep from speaking?

³ Indeed, you have instructed many and have strengthened ⓒ weak hands.

⁴ Your words have steadied the one who was stumbling and braced the knees that were buckling. ⓓ

⁵ But now that this has happened to you, you have become exhausted. It strikes ⓔ you, and you are dismayed.

⁶ Isn’t your piety your confidence, and the integrity of your life [1] your hope? ⓕ

⁷ Consider: Who has perished when he was innocent? Where have the honest [2] been destroyed? ⓖ

⁸ In my experience, those who plow injustice and those who sow trouble ⓗ reap the same. ⓘ

⁹ They perish at a single blast ⓙ from God and come to an end by the breath of his nostrils. ⓚ

¹⁰ The lion may roar and the fierce lion ⓛ growl, but the teeth of young lions are broken. ⓜ

¹¹ The strong lion dies if it catches no prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered. ⓝ

¹² A word was brought to me in secret; my ears caught a whisper of it. ⓐ

¹³ Among unsettling thoughts from visions in the night, ⓑ when deep sleep ⓒ comes over men,

¹⁴ fear and trembling came over me ⓓ and made all my bones shake.

¹⁵ I felt a draft [3] on my face, and the hair on my body stood up.

¹⁶ A figure stood there, but I could not recognize its appearance; a form loomed before my eyes. I heard a whispering voice:

¹⁷ “Can a mortal be righteous before God? Can a man be more pure than his Maker?” ⓔ

¹⁸ If God puts no trust in his servants and he charges his angels with foolishness, [4] ⓕ

¹⁹ how much more those who dwell in clay houses, ⓖ whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth!

²⁰ They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; they perish forever while no one notices. ⓗ

²¹ Are their tent cords not pulled up? They die without wisdom. ⓘ

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1	Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
2	Should anyone try to speak with you when you are exhausted? Yet who can keep from speaking?
3	Indeed, you have instructed many and have strengthened ⓒ weak hands.
4	Your words have steadied the one who was stumbling and braced the knees that were buckling. ⓓ
5	But now that this has happened to you, you have become exhausted. It strikes ⓔ you, and you are dismayed.
6	Isn’t your piety your confidence, and the integrity of your life [1] your hope? ⓕ
7	Consider: Who has perished when he was innocent? Where have the honest [2] been destroyed? ⓖ
8	In my experience, those who plow injustice and those who sow trouble ⓗ reap the same. ⓘ
9	They perish at a single blast ⓙ from God and come to an end by the breath of his nostrils. ⓚ
10	The lion may roar and the fierce lion ⓛ growl, but the teeth of young lions are broken. ⓜ
11	The strong lion dies if it catches no prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered. ⓝ
12	A word was brought to me in secret; my ears caught a whisper of it. ⓐ
13	Among unsettling thoughts from visions in the night, ⓑ when deep sleep ⓒ comes over men,
14	fear and trembling came over me ⓓ and made all my bones shake.
15	I felt a draft [3] on my face, and the hair on my body stood up.
16	A figure stood there, but I could not recognize its appearance; a form loomed before my eyes. I heard a whispering voice:
17	“Can a mortal be righteous before God? Can a man be more pure than his Maker?” ⓔ
18	If God puts no trust in his servants and he charges his angels with foolishness, [4] ⓕ
19	how much more those who dwell in clay houses, ⓖ whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth!
20	They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; they perish forever while no one notices. ⓗ
21	Are their tent cords not pulled up? They die without wisdom. ⓘ

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