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It has touched you, and you are disturbed.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Where is your reverence, your fortitude, your patience, and the perfection of your ways?<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Consider this, I beg you: who ever perished being innocent? Or when have the righteous been destroyed?<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>In fact, I have instead seen those who work iniquity and who sow resentments, reap them,<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>perishing by the breath of God, and being consumed by the wrath of his spirit.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the lioness, and the teeth of young lions have been worn away.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>The tiger has perished because it does not have prey, and the young lions have been scattered.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Furthermore, a word was spoken to me in secret, and, as if by theft, my ears received the pulse of its whisper.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>In the horror of a vision by night, when men are accustomed to be overtaken by a deep sleep,<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>fear and trembling seized me and all my bones were terrified.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And when a spirit passed before me, the hair on my body stood up.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>There appeared an image before my eyes, someone whose face I did not recognize, and I heard a voice like a gentle breeze.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/4-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Should man be justified in relation to God, or will a man be more pure than his Maker?<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/4-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Behold, those who serve him are not steadfast, and in his angels he finds imperfection.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/4-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>How much more will those who live in houses of clay, which have an earthly foundation, be consumed like the moth?<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/4-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>From morning all the way to evening, they will be cut down, and because no one understands, they will be destroyed without ceasing.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/job/4-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>But those who are left behind will be taken away from them; they will die, and not in wisdom.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Catholic Public Domain Version<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../job/3.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Job 3"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Job 3" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../job/5.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Job 5"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Job 5" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>