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\c 4
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\v 1 Then Eliphaz replied to Job. He said,
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\q1
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\v 2 "Will you please allow me to say something to you?
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\q2 I am not able to remain silent any longer.
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\q1
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\v 3 In the past, you have instructed many people,
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\q2 and you have encouraged those for whom it was difficult to trust in God.
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\q1
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\v 4 In the past, when you spoke to others who were suffering, you helped them;
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\q2 they were able to rejoice again because of God.
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\q1
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\v 5 But now, when you yourself suffer from disasters, you become discouraged.
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\q2 The disasters hit you, and you are stunned.
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\q1
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\v 6 You say that you honor God; so you should be trusting in him, for him not to let you suffer.
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\q2 If you really had not sinned, you would have been confident that God would not let these disasters happen to you!
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\q1
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\v 7 Think about this: No innocent people ever die when they are still young!
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\q2 God never kills innocent people!
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\q1
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\v 8 I have seen this happen: if farmers plant bad seeds, they do not harvest good crops;
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\q2 anyone who starts trouble for others later brings trouble on himself.
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\q1
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\v 9 These people die when God commands them to,
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\q2 because he is very angry with them.
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\q1
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\v 10 Even though wicked people may be very powerful like young lions,
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\q2 God destroys them.
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\q1
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\v 11 They will die like older lions that starve to death when there are no animals left to eat.
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\q2 Their children will scatter from each other like young lions that separate from each other to find food.
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\v 12 I heard a message that someone came
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\q2 and whispered to me.
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\v 13 He spoke to me at night when I was having a bad dream that disturbed me.
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\v 14 It caused me to be afraid and tremble;
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\q2 it caused all my bones to shake.
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\q1
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\v 15 A ghost glided past my face
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\q2 and caused the hair on the back of my neck to stand straight up.
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\q1
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\v 16 It stopped, but I could not see what it really looked like.
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\q2 But I knew that there was some being in front of me,
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\q1 and it said in a quiet voice,
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\v 17 'No human being can be more righteous than God.
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\q1 No man can be better than God, who made him.
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\q1
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\v 18 God cannot be sure that his own angels will always do what is right;
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\q2 he declares that some of them have done wrong.
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\q1
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\v 19 So he certainly cannot trust human beings whom he has made from dust and clay,
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\q2 human beings, whom disaster crushes as easily as you can crush a moth!
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\q1
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\v 20 People are sometimes in good health in the morning, but by the evening they are dead.
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\q2 They are gone forever and no one even pays attention.
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\q1
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\v 21 They are like tents that collapse suddenly when you pull up their stakes;
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\q2 they die suddenly without ever knowing why.'"
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