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| The Book of Job 4 | ||||||||||||||||
| The Douay-Rheims Version Online Bible (DRV) | ||||||||||||||||
| Job 4:1 | Then Eliphaz the Themanite answered, and said: | |||||||||||||||
| Job 4:2 | If we begin to speak to thee, perhaps thou wilt take it ill, but who can withhold the words he hath conceived? | |||||||||||||||
| Job 4:3 | Behold thou hast taught many, and thou hast strengthened the weary hands: | |||||||||||||||
| Job 4:4 | Thy words have confirmed them that were staggering, and thou hast strengthened the trembling knees: | |||||||||||||||
| Job 4:5 | But now the scourge is come upon thee, and thou faintest: it hath touched thee, and thou art troubled. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 4:6 | Where is thy fear, thy fortitude, thy patience, and the perfection of thy ways? | |||||||||||||||
| Job 4:7 | Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished being innocent? or when were the just destroyed? | |||||||||||||||
| Job 4:8 | On the contrary I have seen those who work iniquity, and sow sorrows, and reap them, | |||||||||||||||
| Job 4:9 | Perishing by the blast of God, and consumed by the spirit of his wrath. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 4:10 | The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the lioness, and the teeth of the whelps of lions are broken: | |||||||||||||||
| Job 4:11 | The tiger hath perished for want of prey, and the young lions are scattered abroad. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 4:12 | Now there was a word spoken to me in private, and my ears by stealth as it were received the veins of its whisper. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 4:13 | In the horror of a vision by night, when deep sleep is wont to hold men, | |||||||||||||||
| Job 4:14 | Fear seized upon me, and trembling, and all my bones were affrighted: | |||||||||||||||
| Job 4:15 | And when a spirit passed before me, the hair of my flesh stood up. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 4:16 | There stood one whose countenance I knew not, an image before my eyes, and I heard the voice as it were of a gentle wind: | |||||||||||||||
| Job 4:17 | Shall man be justified in comparison of God, or shall a man be more pure than his maker? | |||||||||||||||
| Job 4:18 | Behold they that serve him are not steadfast, and in his angels he found wickedness: | |||||||||||||||
| Job 4:19 | How much more shall they that dwell in houses of clay, who have an earthly foundation, be consumed as with the moth? | |||||||||||||||
| Job 4:20 | From morning till evening they shall be cut down: and because no one understandeth, they shall perish for ever. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 4:21 | And they that shall be left, shall be taken away from them: they shall die, and not in wisdom. | |||||||||||||||
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