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Eliphaz
Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
Eliphaz’s First Response to Job
Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied to Job:
Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied to Job:
“If someone ventures a word with you, will you be impatient?
But who can keep from speaking?
But who can keep from speaking?
“Will you be patient and let me say a word?
For who could keep from speaking out?
For who could keep from speaking out?
Think how you have instructed many,
how you have strengthened feeble hands.
how you have strengthened feeble hands.
“In the past you have encouraged many people;
you have strengthened those who were weak.
you have strengthened those who were weak.
Your words have supported those who stumbled;
you have strengthened faltering knees.
you have strengthened faltering knees.
Your words have supported those who were falling;
you encouraged those with shaky knees.
you encouraged those with shaky knees.
But now trouble comes to you, and you are discouraged;
it strikes you, and you are dismayed.
it strikes you, and you are dismayed.
But now when trouble strikes, you lose heart.
You are terrified when it touches you.
You are terrified when it touches you.
Should not your piety be your confidence
and your blameless ways your hope?
and your blameless ways your hope?
Doesn’t your reverence for God give you confidence?
Doesn’t your life of integrity give you hope?
Doesn’t your life of integrity give you hope?
“Consider now: Who, being innocent, has ever perished?
Where were the upright ever destroyed?
Where were the upright ever destroyed?
“Stop and think! Do the innocent die?
When have the upright been destroyed?
When have the upright been destroyed?
As I have observed, those who plow evil
and those who sow trouble reap it.
and those who sow trouble reap it.
My experience shows that those who plant trouble
and cultivate evil will harvest the same.
and cultivate evil will harvest the same.
At the breath of God they perish;
at the blast of his anger they are no more.
at the blast of his anger they are no more.
A breath from God destroys them.
They vanish in a blast of his anger.
They vanish in a blast of his anger.
The lions may roar and growl,
yet the teeth of the great lions are broken.
yet the teeth of the great lions are broken.
The lion roars and the wildcat snarls,
but the teeth of strong lions will be broken.
but the teeth of strong lions will be broken.
The lion perishes for lack of prey,
and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
The fierce lion will starve for lack of prey,
and the cubs of the lioness will be scattered.
and the cubs of the lioness will be scattered.
“A word was secretly brought to me,
my ears caught a whisper of it.
my ears caught a whisper of it.
“This truth was given to me in secret,
as though whispered in my ear.
as though whispered in my ear.
Amid disquieting dreams in the night,
when deep sleep falls on people,
when deep sleep falls on people,
It came to me in a disturbing vision at night,
when people are in a deep sleep.
when people are in a deep sleep.
fear and trembling seized me
and made all my bones shake.
and made all my bones shake.
Fear gripped me,
and my bones trembled.
and my bones trembled.
A spirit glided past my face,
and the hair on my body stood on end.
and the hair on my body stood on end.
It stopped,
but I could not tell what it was.
A form stood before my eyes,
and I heard a hushed voice:
but I could not tell what it was.
A form stood before my eyes,
and I heard a hushed voice:
The spirit stopped, but I couldn’t see its shape.
There was a form before my eyes.
In the silence I heard a voice say,
There was a form before my eyes.
In the silence I heard a voice say,
‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God?
Can even a strong man be more pure than his Maker?
Can even a strong man be more pure than his Maker?
‘Can a mortal be innocent before God?
Can anyone be pure before the Creator?’
Can anyone be pure before the Creator?’
If God places no trust in his servants,
if he charges his angels with error,
if he charges his angels with error,
“If God does not trust his own angels
and has charged his messengers with foolishness,
and has charged his messengers with foolishness,
how much more those who live in houses of clay,
whose foundations are in the dust,
who are crushed more readily than a moth!
whose foundations are in the dust,
who are crushed more readily than a moth!
how much less will he trust people made of clay!
They are made of dust, crushed as easily as a moth.
They are made of dust, crushed as easily as a moth.
Between dawn and dusk they are broken to pieces;
unnoticed, they perish forever.
unnoticed, they perish forever.
They are alive in the morning but dead by evening,
gone forever without a trace.
gone forever without a trace.