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  • 1. And Eliphaz the Temanite answereth and saith: --
  • 2. Hath one tried a word with thee? -- Thou art weary! And to keep in words who is able?
  • 3. Lo, thou hast instructed many, And feeble hands thou makest strong.
  • 4. The stumbling one do thy words raise up, And bowing knees thou dost strengthen.
  • 5. But now, it cometh in unto thee, And thou art weary; It striketh unto thee, and thou art troubled.
  • 6. Is not thy reverence thy confidence? Thy hope -- the perfection of thy ways?
  • 7. Remember, I pray thee, Who, being innocent, hath perished? And where have the upright been cut off?
  • 8. As I have seen -- ploughers of iniquity, And sowers of misery, reap it!
  • 9. From the breath of God they perish, And from the spirit of His anger consumed.
  • 10. The roaring of a lion, And the voice of a fierce lion, And teeth of young lions have been broken.
  • 11. An old lion is perishing without prey, And the whelps of the lioness do separate.
  • 12. And unto me a thing is secretly brought, And receive doth mine ear a little of it.
  • 13. In thoughts from visions of the night, In the falling of deep sleep on men,
  • 14. Fear hath met me, and trembling, And the multitude of my bones caused to fear.
  • 15. And a spirit before my face doth pass, Stand up doth the hair of my flesh;
  • 16. It standeth, and I discern not its aspect, A similitude `is' over-against mine eyes, Silence! and a voice I hear:
  • 17. `Is mortal man than God more righteous? Than his Maker is a man cleaner?
  • 18. Lo, in His servants He putteth no credence, Nor in His messengers setteth praise.'
  • 19. Also -- the inhabitants of houses of clay, (Whose foundation `is' in the dust, They bruise them before a moth.)
  • 20. From morning to evening are beaten down, Without any regarding, for ever they perish.
  • 21. Hath not their excellency been removed with them? They die, and not in wisdom!