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15 A spirit glided past me
    and made the hair on my skin[a] to bristle.
16 It remained standing,
    but I couldn’t recognize its appearance.
A form appeared before my eyes;
    At first there was[b] silence, and then this voice:
17 ‘Can a mortal person[c] be more righteous than God?
    Or can the purity of the valiant exceed that of his maker?’[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Job 4:15 Lit. flesh
  2. Job 4:16 The Heb. lacks At first there was
  3. Job 4:17 Lit. a man
  4. Job 4:17 The quotation possibly continues through v 21.