Book - Job - Chapter = 4 --> NLT
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Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied to Job:
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"Will you be patient and let me say a word? For who could keep from speaking out?
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"In the past you have encouraged many a troubled soul to trust in God; you have supported those who were weak.
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Your words have strengthened the fallen; you steadied those who wavered.
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But now when trouble strikes, you faint and are broken.
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Does your reverence for God give you no confidence? Shouldn't you believe that God will care for those who are upright?
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"Stop and think! Does the innocent person perish? When has the upright person been destroyed?
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My experience shows that those who plant trouble and cultivate evil will harvest the same.
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They perish by a breath from God. They vanish in a blast of his anger.
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Though they are fierce young lions, they will all be broken and destroyed.
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The fierce lion will starve, and the cubs of the lioness will be scattered.
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"This truth was given me in secret, as though whispered in my ear.
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It came in a vision at night as others slept.
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Fear gripped me; I trembled and shook with terror.
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A spirit swept past my face. Its wind sent shivers up my spine.
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It stopped, but I couldn't see its shape. There was a form before my eyes, and a hushed voice said,
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`Can a mortal be just and upright before God? Can a person be pure before the Creator?'
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"If God cannot trust his own angels and has charged some of them with folly,
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how much less will he trust those made of clay! Their foundation is dust, and they are crushed as easily as moths.
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They are alive in the morning, but by evening they are dead, gone forever without a trace.
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Their tent collapses; they die in ignorance.