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Job 4

Brenton's English Septuagint · Berean Standard Bible

4:1

Then Eliphaz the Thæmanite answered and said,

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4:2

Hast thou been often spoken to in distress? but who shall endure the force of thy words?

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4:3

For whereas thou hast instructed many, and hast strengthened the hands of the weak one,

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and hast supported the failing with words, and hast imparted courage to feeble knees.

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4:5

Yet now [that] pain has come upon thee, and touched thee, thou art troubled.

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4:6

Is not thy fear [founded] in folly, thy hope also, and the mischief of thy way?

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4:7

Remember then who has perished, being pure? or when were the true-hearted utterly destroyed?

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4:8

Accordingly as I have seen men ploughing barren places, and they that sow them will reap sorrows for themselves.

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4:9

They shall perish by the command of the Lord, and shall be utterly consumed by the breath of his wrath.

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4:10

The strength of the lion, and the voice of the lioness, and the exulting cry of serpents are quenched.

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4:11

The old lion has perished for want of food, and the lions' whelps have forsaken one another.

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4:12

But if there had been any truth in thy words, none of these evils would have befallen thee. Shall not mine ear receive excellent [revelations] from him?

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4:13

But [as when] terror falls upon men, with dread and a sound in the night,

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4:14

horror and trembling seized me, and caused all my bones greatly to shake.

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4:15

And a spirit came before my face; and my hair and flesh quivered.

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4:16

I arose and perceived it not: I looked, and there was no form before my eyes: but I only heard a breath and a voice, [saying],

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4:17

What, shall a mortal be pure before the Lord? or a man be blameless in regard to his works?

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4:18

Whereas he trusts not in his servants, and perceives perverseness in his angels.

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4:19

But [as for] them that dwell in houses of clay, of whom we also are formed of the same clay, he smites them like a moth.

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4:20

And from morning to evening they no longer exist: they have perished, because they cannot help themselves.

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4:21

For he blows upon them, and they are withered: they have perished for lack of wisdom.

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