The first speech of Eliphaz
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📚✭Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, 2 📚✭“If one attempts a word with you, will you be grieved? But who can keep himself from speaking?
3 📚Look, you have instructed many, and have strengthened weak hands.
4 📚Your words have held up him who was falling, and you have strengthened feeble knees.
5 📚But now it has come on you, and you faint. It touches you, and you are troubled.
6 📚Is not your fear of God your confidence, your hope, and the uprightness of your ways?
7 📚✭“Please remember, who ever perished, being innocent? Or where were the righteous ever cut off?
8 📚As I have seen, those who plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
9 📚By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils they are consumed.
10 📚✭The roaring of the lion and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions are broken.
11 📚The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
12 📚✭“Now a word was secretly brought to me, and my ear received a whisper of it.
13 📚In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,
14 📚Fear and trembling came on me, which made all my bones shake.
15 📚Then a spirit passed before my face. The hair of my body stood up.
16 📚It stood still, but I could not discern its shape. An image was before my eyes. There was silence; and I heard a voice, saying,
17 📚✭✭‘Can a mortal be more just than God? Can a man be more pure than his Maker?
18 📚Consider, he puts no trust in his servants, and he charges his angels with error.
19 📚✭How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth?
20 📚They are destroyed from morning to evening; they perish forever without anyone regarding it.
21 📚Does not their abundance which is among them go away? They die, still without wisdom.’