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Job 4 📜 📕 ↷
Eliphaz: The Innocent Prosper
1 BUT Eliphaz the Themanite answering, said:📜💬📚
2 If we shall begin to speak to thee, perhaps thou wilt take it grievously, but the word conceived who can hold?📜💬📚
3 Behold thou hast taught many, and weary hands thou hast strengthened.📜💬📚
4 Them that wavered thy words have confirmed, and trembling knees thou hast strengthened:📜💬📚
5 But now a plague is come upon thee, & thou hast fainted: hath touched thee, and thou art troubled.📜💬📚
6 Where is thy fear, thy strength, thy patience, and the perfection of thy ways?📜💬📚
7 Remember I beseech thee, who ever being innocent hath perished? Or when have the just been destroyed?📜💬📚
8 Yea rather I have seen them that work iniquity, and sow sorrows, and reap them,📜💬📚
9 to have perished by the blast of God, and with the spirit of his wrath to have been consumed.📜💬📚
10 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the lioness, and the teeth of the whelps of lions are bruised:📜💬📚
11 The tiger hath perished, because he had no prey, and the lion's whelps are destroyed.📜💬📚
12 Moreover to me there was spoken a secret word, and as it were by stealth hath mine ear received the veins of the whispering thereof.📜💬📚
13 In the horror of a vision by night, when deep sleep is wont to hold men,📜💬📚
14 fear held me, and trembling, and all my bones were made sore afraid:📜💬📚
15 And when the spirit passed in my presence, the hairs of my flesh stood upright.📜💬📚
16 There stood one, whose countenance I knew not, an image before mine eyes, and I heard the voice as it were of a gentle wind:📜💬📚
17 What, shall man be justified in comparison of God, or shall a man be more pure than his maker?📜💬📚
18 Behold they that serve him are not stable, and in his Angels he found wickedness:📜💬📚
19 How much more they that inhabit houses of clay, which have an earthly foundation, shall be consumed as it were of the moth?📜💬📚
20 From morning until evening they shall be cut down: and because none understandeth, they shall perish for ever.📜💬📚
21 And they that shall be left, shall be taken away from them: they shall die, and not in wisdom.📜💬📚
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