- 1. Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, and said,
- 2. If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieued? But who can withhold himselfe from speaking?
- 3. Beholde, Thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weake hands.
- 4. Thy words haue vpholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.
- 5. But now it is come vpon thee, and thou faintest, it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.
- 6. Is not this thy feare, thy confidence; the vprightnesse of thy wayes and thy hope?
- 7. Remember, I pray thee, who euer perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?
- 8. Euen as I haue seene, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickednsse, reape the same.
- 9. By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.
- 10. The roaring of the Lyon, and the voice of the fierce Lyon, and the teeth of the yong Lyons are broken.
- 11. The old Lyon perisheth for lacke of pray, and the stout Lyons whelpes are scattered abroad.
- 12. Nowe a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine eare receiued a litle thereof.
- 13. In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deepe sleepe falleth on men:
- 14. Feare came vpon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.
- 15. Then a spirit passed before my face: the haire of my flesh stood vp.
- 16. It stood still, but I could not discerne the forme thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voyce, saying,
- 17. Shall mortall man be more iust then God? shall a man bee more pure then his maker?
- 18. Behold, hee put no trust in his seruants; and his Angels hee charged with folly:
- 19. Howe much lesse on them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth.
- 20. They are destroyed from morning to euening: they perish for euer, without any regarding it.
- 21. Doeth not their excellencie which is in them, goe away? they die, euen without wisedome.
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