- 1. Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, and sayde,
- 2. If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieued? but who can withholde himselfe from speaking?
- 3. Behold, thou hast taught many, and hast strengthened the wearie hands.
- 4. Thy wordes haue confirmed him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the weake knees.
- 5. But now it is come vpon thee, and thou art grieued: it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.
- 6. Is not this thy feare, thy confidence, thy pacience, and the vprightnesse of thy wayes?
- 7. Remember, I pray thee: who euer perished, being an innocent? or where were the vpright destroyed?
- 8. As I haue seene, they that plow iniquitie, and sowe wickednesse, reape the same.
- 9. With the blast of God they perish, and with the breath of his nostrels are they cosumed.
- 10. The roaring of the Lion, and the voyce of the Lionesse, & the teeth of the Lions whelpes are broken.
- 11. The Lyon perisheth for lacke of pray, and the Lyons whelpes are scattered abroade.
- 12. But a thing was brought to me secretly, and mine eare hath receiued a litle thereof.
- 13. In the thoughtes of ye visions of the night, when sleepe falleth on men,
- 14. Feare came vpon me, & dread which made all my bones to tremble.
- 15. And the wind passed before me, and made the heares of my flesh to stande vp.
- 16. Then stoode one, and I knewe not his face: an image was before mine eyes, and in silence heard I a voyce, saying,
- 17. Shall man be more iust then God? or shall a man be more pure then his maker?
- 18. Beholde, he founde no stedfastnesse in his Seruants, and laid follie vpon his Angels.
- 19. Howe much more in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which shalbe destroyed before the moth?
- 20. They be destroyed from the morning vnto the euening: they perish for euer, without regarde.
- 21. Doeth not their dignitie goe away with them? do they not die, & that without wisdom?
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