Tua Palavra

First Series of Speeches
Eliphaz Speaks

|Jó 4:1| Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

|Jó 4:2| Should anyone try to speak with you when you are exhausted? Yet who can keep from speaking?

|Jó 4:3| Indeed, you have instructed many and have strengthened ^a weak hands.

|Jó 4:4| Your words have steadied the one who was stumbling and braced the knees that were buckling. ^b

|Jó 4:5| But now that this has happened to you, you have become exhausted. It strikes ^c you, and you are dismayed.

|Jó 4:6| Isn’t your piety your confidence, and the integrity of your life ¹ your hope? ^d

|Jó 4:7| Consider: who has perished when he was innocent? Where have the honest been destroyed? ^e

|Jó 4:8| In my experience, those who plow injustice and those who sow trouble ^f reap the same. ^g

|Jó 4:9| They perish at a single blast ^h from God and come to an end by the breath of His nostrils. ⁱ

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|Jó 4:10| The lion may roar and the fierce lion ^j growl, but the fangs of young lions are broken. ^k