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¹ Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, and said, ² If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieued? But who can withhold himselfe from speaking? ³ Beholde, Thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weake hands. ⁴ Thy words haue vpholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees. ⁵ But now it is come vpon thee, and thou faintest, it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled. ⁶ Is not this thy feare, thy confidence; the vprightnesse of thy wayes and thy hope?

⁷ Remember, I pray thee, who euer perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off? ⁸ Euen as I haue seene, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickednsse, reape the same. ⁹ By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed. ¹⁰ The roaring of the Lyon, and the voice of the fierce Lyon, and the teeth of the yong Lyons are broken. ¹¹ The old Lyon perisheth for lacke of pray, and the stout Lyons whelpes are scattered abroad.

¹² Nowe a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine eare receiued a litle thereof. ¹³ In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deepe sleepe falleth on men: ¹⁴ Feare came vpon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. ¹⁵ Then a spirit passed before my face: the haire of my flesh stood vp. ¹⁶ It stood still, but I could not discerne the forme thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voyce, saying, ¹⁷ Shall mortall man be more iust then God? shall a man bee more pure then his maker? ¹⁸ Behold, hee put no trust in his seruants; and his Angels hee charged with folly: ¹⁹ Howe much lesse on them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth. ²⁰ They are destroyed from morning to euening: they perish for euer, without any regarding it. ²¹ Doeth not their excellencie which is in them, goe away? they die, euen without wisedome.