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		Job 4:1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
		Job 4:2 "If we dare to converse with you, will you be impatient [or offended]? But who can restrain himself from speaking?
		Job 4:3 "Behold, you have admonished and instructed many, And you have strengthened weak hands.
		Job 4:4 "Your words have helped the one who was stumbling to stand, And you have strengthened feeble knees.
		Job 4:5 "But now adversity comes upon you, and you are impatient and intolerant; It touches you, and you are horrified.
		Job 4:6 "Is not your fear of God your confidence, And [is not] the integrity and uprightness of your ways your hope?
		Job 4:7 ¶ "Remember now, who, being innocent, ever perished? Or where [and in what circumstances] were those upright and in right standing with God destroyed?
		Job 4:8 "As I have seen, those who plow wickedness And those who sow trouble and harm harvest it.
		Job 4:9 "By the breath of God they perish, And by the blast of His anger they are consumed.
		Job 4:10 "The roaring of the lion and the voice of the fierce lion, And the teeth of the young lions are broken.
		Job 4:11 "The lion perishes for lack of prey, And the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
		Job 4:12 ¶ "Now a word was secretly brought to me, And my ear received a whisper of it.
		Job 4:13 "Amid disquieting thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falls on men,
		Job 4:14 Dread and trembling came upon me, Which made all my bones shake.
		Job 4:15 "Then a spirit passed before my face; The hair on my skin stood on end!
		Job 4:16 "The spirit stood still, but I could not discern its appearance; A form was before my eyes; There was silence, and then I heard a voice, saying:
		Job 4:17 'Can [mortal] man be just before God or be more righteous than He? Can a man be pure before his Maker or be more cleansed than He? [1 John 1:7; Rev 1:5]
		Job 4:18 'God puts no trust or confidence, even in His [heavenly] servants, And He charges His angels with error.
		Job 4:19 'How much more [will He blame and charge] those who dwell in houses (bodies) of clay, Whose foundations are in the dust, Who are crushed like a moth.
		Job 4:20 'Between morning and evening they are broken in pieces and destroyed; Unobserved and unnoticed, they perish forever.
		Job 4:21 'Is not their tent-cord drawn up within them [so that the tent collapses]? Do they not die, and yet without [acquiring] wisdom?'

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