Eliphaz Speaks
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Should anyone try to speak with you
when you are exhausted?
Yet who can keep from speaking?
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Yet who can keep from speaking?
But now that this has happened to you,
you have become exhausted.
It strikes(C) you, and you are dismayed.
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It strikes(C) you, and you are dismayed.
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A figure stood there,
but I could not recognize its appearance;
a form loomed before my eyes.
I heard a quiet voice:
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a form loomed before my eyes.
I heard a quiet voice:
how much more those who dwell in clay houses,(S)
whose foundation is in the dust,
who are crushed like a moth!
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who are crushed like a moth!
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