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1. Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
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1. Then Eliphaz H464 the Temanite H8489 answered H6030 and said H559 ,
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2. Should anyone try to speak with you when you are exhausted? Yet who can keep from speaking?
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2. If we attempt to commune H5254 H1697 with H413 thee , wilt thou be grieved H3811 ? but who H4310 can H3201 withhold H6113 himself from speaking H4405 ?
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3. Look! You have instructed many and have strengthened weak hands.
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3. Behold H2009 , thou hast instructed H3256 many H7227 , and thou hast strengthened H2388 the weak H7504 hands H3027 .
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4. Your words have steadied the one who was stumbling, and braced the knees that were buckling.
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4. Thy words H4405 have upheld H6965 him that was falling H3782 , and thou hast strengthened H553 the feeble H3766 knees H1290 .
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5. But now that this has happened to you, you have become exhausted. It strikes you, and you are dismayed.
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5. But H3588 now H6258 it is come H935 upon H413 thee , and thou faintest H3811 ; it toucheth H5060 H5704 thee , and thou art troubled H926 .
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6. Isn't your piety your confidence, and the integrity of your life your hope?
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6. Is not H3808 this thy fear H3374 , thy confidence H3690 , thy hope H8615 , and the uprightness H8537 of thy ways H1870 ?
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7. Consider: who has perished when he was innocent? Where have the honest been destroyed?
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7. Remember H2142 , I pray thee H4994 , who H4310 ever perished H6 , being innocent H5355 ? or where H375 were the righteous H3477 cut off H3582 ?
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8. In my experience, those who plow injustice and those who sow trouble reap the same.
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8. Even as H834 I have seen H7200 , they that plow H2790 iniquity H205 , and sow H2232 wickedness H5999 , reap H7114 the same.
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9. They perish at a single blast from God and come to an end by the breath of His nostrils.
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9. By the blast H4480 H5397 of God H433 they perish H6 , and by the breath H4480 H7307 of his nostrils H639 are they consumed H3615 .
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10. The lion may roar and the fierce lion growl, but the fangs of young lions are broken.
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10. The roaring H7581 of the lion H738 , and the voice H6963 of the fierce lion H7826 , and the teeth H8127 of the young lions H3715 , are broken H5421 .
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11. The strong lion dies if it catches no prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
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11. The old lion H3918 perisheth H6 for lack H4480 H1097 of prey H2964 , and the stout lion H3833 's whelps H1121 are scattered abroad H6504 .
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12. A word was brought to me in secret; my ears caught a whisper of it.
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12. Now a thing H1697 was secretly brought H1589 to H413 me , and mine ear H241 received H3947 a little H8102 thereof H4480 .
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13. Among unsettling thoughts from visions in the night, when deep sleep descends on men,
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13. In thoughts H5587 from the visions H4480 H2384 of the night H3915 , when deep sleep H8639 falleth H5307 on H5921 men H376 ,
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14. fear and trembling came over me and made all my bones shake.
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14. Fear H6343 came upon H7122 me , and trembling H7460 , which made all H7230 my bones H6106 to shake H6342 .
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15. A wind passed by me, and I shuddered with fear.
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15. Then a spirit H7307 passed H2498 before H5921 my face H6440 ; the hair H8185 of my flesh H1320 stood up H5568 :
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16. A figure stood there, but I could not recognize its appearance; a form loomed before my eyes. I heard a quiet voice:
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16. It stood still H5975 , but I could not H3808 discern H5234 the form H4758 thereof : an image H8544 was before H5048 mine eyes H5869 , there was silence H1827 , and I heard H8085 a voice H6963 , saying ,
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17. "Can a person be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?"
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17. Shall mortal man H582 be more just than God H6663 H4480 H433 ? shall a man H1397 be more pure H2891 than his maker H4480 H6213 ?
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18. If God puts no trust in His servants and He charges His angels with foolishness,
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18. Behold H2005 , he put no trust H539 H3808 in his servants H5650 ; and his angels H4397 he charged H7760 with folly H8417 :
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19. how much more those who dwell in clay houses, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth!
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19. How much less H637 in them that dwell in H7931 houses H1004 of clay H2563 , whose H834 foundation H3247 is in the dust H6083 , which are crushed H1792 before H6440 the moth H6211 ?
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20. They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; they perish forever while no one notices.
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20. They are destroyed H3807 from morning H4480 H1242 to evening H6153 : they perish H6 forever H5331 without any H4480 H1097 regarding H7760 it .
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21. Are their tent cords not pulled up? They die without wisdom.
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21. Doth not H3808 their excellency H3499 which is in them go away H5265 ? they die H4191 , even without H3808 wisdom H2451 .
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