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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said, |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData If one assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking? |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData Behold, thou hast instructed many, And thou hast strengthened the weak hands. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData Thy words have upholden him that was falling, And thou hast made firm the feeble knees. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData But now it is come unto thee, and thou faintest; It toucheth thee, and thou art troubled. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData Is not thy fear `of God' thy confidence, `And' the integrity of thy ways thy hope? |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData Remember, I pray thee, who `ever' perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off? |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData According as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, And sow trouble, reap the same. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData By the breath of God they perish, And by the blast of his anger are they consumed. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, And the teeth of the young lions, are broken. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, And the whelps of the lioness are scattered abroad. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData Now a thing was secretly brought to me, And mine ear received a whisper thereof. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData In thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falleth on men, |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData Fear came upon me, and trembling, Which made all my bones to shake. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData Then a spirit passed before my face; The hair of my flesh stood up. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData It stood still, but I could not discern the appearance thereof; A form was before mine eyes: `There was' silence, and I heard a voice, `saying', |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker? |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData Behold, he putteth no trust in his servants; And his angels he chargeth with folly: |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before the moth! |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData Betwixt morning and evening they are destroyed: They perish for ever without any regarding it. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom. |
