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You are weary! And who is able to keep in words?<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Behold, you have instructed many, "" And feeble hands you make strong.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Your words raise up the stumbling one, "" And you strengthen bowing knees.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>But now, it comes to you, "" And you are weary; It strikes to you, and you are troubled.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Is your reverence not your confidence? Your hope—the perfection of your ways?<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Now remember, "" Who, being innocent, has perished? And where have the upright been cut off?<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>As I have seen—plowers of iniquity, "" And sowers of misery, reap it!<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>From the breath of God they perish, "" And from the spirit of His anger [are] consumed.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>The roaring of a lion, "" And the voice of a fierce lion, "" And teeth of young lions have been broken.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>An old lion is perishing without prey, "" And the whelps of the lioness separate.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And a thing is secretly brought to me, "" And my ear receives a little of it.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>In thoughts from visions of the night, "" In the falling of deep sleep on men,<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Fear has met me, and trembling, "" And the multitude of my bones caused to fear.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And a spirit passes before my face, "" The hair of my flesh stands up;<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>It stands, and I do not discern its aspect, "" A likeness [is] before my eyes, "" Silence! And I hear a voice:<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/4-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Is mortal man more righteous than God? Is a man cleaner than his Maker?<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/4-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Behold, He puts no credence in His servants, "" Nor sets praise in His messengers.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/4-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Also—the inhabitants of houses of clay "" (Whose foundation [is] in the dust, "" They bruise them before a moth).<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/4-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>From morning to evening are beaten down, "" Without any regarding, they perish forever.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/job/4-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Has their excellence not been removed with them? 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