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4:1 icapshen Eliphaz the Temanite answered, and said,  
4:2 If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieued? But who can withhold himselfe from speaking? Margin Note
4:3 Beholde, Thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weake hands.  
4:4 Thy words haue vpholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees. Margin Note
4:5 But now it is come vpon thee, and thou faintest, it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.  
4:6 Is not this thy feare, thy confidence; the vprightnesse of thy wayes and thy hope?  
4:7 Remember, I pray thee, who euer perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?  
4:8 Euen as I haue seene, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickednsse, reape the same.  
4:9 By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.  
4:10 The roaring of the Lyon, and the voice of the fierce Lyon, and the teeth of the yong Lyons are broken.  
4:11 The old Lyon perisheth for lacke of pray, and the stout Lyons whelpes are scattered abroad.  
4:12 Nowe a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine eare receiued a litle thereof. Margin Note
4:13 In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deepe sleepe falleth on men:  
4:14 Feare came vpon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Margin Note
4:15 Then a spirit passed before my face: the haire of my flesh stood vp.  
4:16 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, Margin Note
4:17 Shall mortall man be more iust then God? shall a man bee more pure then his maker?  
4:18 Behold, hee put no trust in his seruants; and his Angels hee charged with folly: Margin Note
4:19 Howe much lesse on them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth.  
4:20 They are destroyed from morning to euening: they perish for euer, without any regarding it. Margin Note
4:21 Doeth not their excellencie which is in them, goe away? they die, euen without wisedome.