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keep from speaking?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>See, you have instructed many;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">you have strengthened the weak hands.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>Your words have supported those who were stumbling,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and you have made firm the feeble knees.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>But now it has come to you, and you are impatient;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">it touches you, and you are dismayed.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>Is not your fear of God your confidence,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and the integrity of your ways your hope?</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>“Think now, who that was innocent ever perished?</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">Or where were the upright cut off?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>As I have seen, those who plow iniquity</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and sow trouble reap the same.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>By the breath of God they perish,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and by the blast of his anger they are consumed.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>The roar of the lion, the voice of the fierce lion,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and the teeth of the young lions are broken.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>The strong lion perishes for lack of prey,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and the whelps of the lioness are scattered.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>“Now a word came stealing to me,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">my ear received the whisper of it.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>Amid thoughts from visions of the night,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">when deep sleep falls on mortals,</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>dread came upon me, and trembling,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">which made all my bones shake.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>A spirit glided past my face;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">the hair of my flesh bristled.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>It stood still,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">but I could not discern its appearance.</span></span><br /><span class="text">A form was before my eyes;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">there was silence, then I heard a voice:</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>‘Can mortals be righteous before<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15018a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> God?</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">Can human beings be pure before<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15018b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> their Maker?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>Even in his servants he puts no trust,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and his angels he charges with error;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>how much more those who live in houses of clay,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">whose foundation is in the dust,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">who are crushed like a moth.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>Between morning and evening they are destroyed;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">they perish forever without any regarding it.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>Their tent-cord is plucked up within them,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and they die devoid of wisdom.’</span></span></p></div> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 4:17">Job 4:17</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>more than</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 4:17">Job 4:17</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>more than</i></span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture 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