Job 4

Eliphaz

1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
2 “If someone ventures a word with you, will you be impatient? But who can keep from speaking?
3 Think how you have instructed many, how you have strengthened feeble hands.
4 Your words have supported those who stumbled; you have strengthened faltering knees.
5 But now trouble comes to you, and you are discouraged; it strikes you, and you are dismayed.
6 Should not your piety be your confidence and your blameless ways your hope?
7 “Consider now: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Where were the upright ever destroyed?
8 As I have observed, those who plow evil and those who sow trouble reap it.
9 At the breath of God they perish; at the blast of his anger they are no more.
10 The lions may roar and growl, yet the teeth of the great lions are broken.
11 The lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
12 “A word was secretly brought to me, my ears caught a whisper of it.
13 Amid disquieting dreams in the night, when deep sleep falls on people,
14 fear and trembling seized me and made all my bones shake.
15 A spirit glided past my face, and the hair on my body stood on end.
16 It stopped, but I could not tell what it was. A form stood before my eyes, and I heard a hushed voice:
17 ‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God? Can even a strong man be more pure than his Maker?
18 If God places no trust in his servants, if he charges his angels with error,
19 how much more those who live in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who are crushed more readily than a moth!
20 Between dawn and dusk they are broken to pieces; unnoticed, they perish forever.
21 Are not the cords of their tent pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?’

Cross References 44

  • 1. S Genesis 36:11; Job 15:1; Job 22:1
  • 2. Job 32:20; Jeremiah 4:19; Jeremiah 20:9
  • 3. Deuteronomy 32:2; Job 29:23; Hosea 6:3
  • 4. Job 26:2; Psalms 71:9; Isaiah 13:7; Isaiah 35:3; Zephaniah 3:16; Hebrews 12:12
  • 5. Job 16:5; Job 29:16,25; Isaiah 1:17
  • 6. Job 29:11,15; Isaiah 35:3; Jeremiah 31:8; Hebrews 12:12
  • 7. S Joshua 1:9
  • 8. Ruth 1:13; Job 1:11; Job 19:21; Job 30:21; Psalms 38:2; Isaiah 53:4
  • 9. Job 6:14; Proverbs 24:10
  • 10. 2 Kings 18:19; Psalms 27:3; Psalms 71:5; Proverbs 3:26
  • 11. S Genesis 6:9; Job 1:1
  • 12. Job 5:11; Job 36:7; Psalms 41:12; 2 Peter 2:9
  • 13. Job 8:20; Psalms 37:25; Psalms 91:9-10; Proverbs 12:21; Proverbs 19:23
  • 14. Job 5:3; Job 15:17
  • 15. Judges 14:18; Job 5:6; Job 15:35; Psalms 7:14; Isaiah 59:4
  • 16. Psalms 7:15; Psalms 9:15; Proverbs 11:18; Proverbs 22:8; Isaiah 17:11; Hosea 8:7; Hosea 10:13; Galatians 6:7-8
  • 17. S Exodus 15:10; S Job 41:21; Job 15:30; Isaiah 30:33; 2 Thessalonians 2:8
  • 18. S Leviticus 26:38; Job 40:13; Isaiah 25:7
  • 19. Psalms 22:13
  • 20. Psalms 17:12; Psalms 22:21; Proverbs 28:15
  • 21. Job 5:15; Job 29:17; Job 36:6; Job 38:15; Psalms 35:10; Psalms 58:6
  • 22. Deuteronomy 28:41; Job 27:14; Job 29:17; Psalms 34:10; Psalms 58:6; Proverbs 30:14
  • 23. Job 5:4
  • 24. ver 17-21; Job 32:13; Jeremiah 9:23
  • 25. Job 26:14
  • 26. Job 33:14
  • 27. Job 33:15
  • 28. Job 21:6; Psalms 48:6; Psalms 55:5; Psalms 119:120,161; Jeremiah 5:22; Habakkuk 3:16; S 2 Corinthians 7:15
  • 29. Jeremiah 23:9; Daniel 10:8; Habakkuk 3:16
  • 30. Daniel 5:6; Daniel 7:15,28; Daniel 10:8; Matthew 14:26
  • 31. S 1 Kings 19:12
  • 32. Job 9:2; Job 13:18; Psalms 143:2
  • 33. Job 8:3; Job 10:3; Job 14:4; Job 15:14; Job 21:14; Job 25:4; Job 31:15; Job 32:22; Job 35:10; Job 36:3,13; Job 37:23; Job 40:19; Psalms 18:26; Psalms 51:5; Psalms 119:73; Proverbs 20:9; Ecclesiastes 7:20; Isaiah 51:13; Malachi 2:10; Acts 17:24
  • 34. Hebrews 1:14
  • 35. Job 15:15; Job 21:22; Job 25:5
  • 36. Job 10:9; Job 33:6; Isaiah 64:8; Romans 9:21; 2 Corinthians 4:7; 2 Corinthians 5:1
  • 37. Job 22:16
  • 38. S Genesis 2:7
  • 39. Job 5:4
  • 40. Job 7:17; Job 15:16; Job 17:14; Job 25:6; Psalms 22:6; Isaiah 41:14
  • 41. Job 14:2,20; Job 15:33; Job 20:7; Job 24:24; Psalms 89:47; Psalms 90:5-6; James 4:14
  • 42. Job 8:22; Isaiah 38:12
  • 43. John 8:24
  • 44. Job 18:21; Job 36:12; Proverbs 5:23; Jeremiah 9:3

Job 4 Commentaries

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