Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 4

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Job 4 . 1 , Eliphaz reproves Job for want of religion; Job 4 . 7 , He teaches God’s judgments to be not for the righteous , but for the wicked; Job 4 . 12 , His fearful vision to humble the excellency of creatures before God.

Job 4:1

Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

Job 4:1 · BSB

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Job 4:2

“If one ventures a word with you, will you be wearied? Yet who can keep from speaking?

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withhold himself from speaking4 parallels

Heb. refrain from words

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to commune Heb. a word

Job 4:3

Surely you have instructed many, and have strengthened their feeble hands.

Job 4:3 · BSB

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Job 4:4

Your words have steadied those who stumbled; you have braced the knees that were buckling.

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Heb. bowing knees

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Job 4:5

But now trouble has come upon you, and you are weary. It strikes you, and you are dismayed.

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Job 4:6

Is your reverence not your confidence, and the uprightness of your ways your hope?

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Job 4:7

Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?

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Job 4:8

As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.

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Job 4:9

By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of His anger they are consumed.

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that is , by his anger

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Job 4:10

The lion may roar, and the fierce lion may growl, yet the teeth of the young lions are broken.

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Job 4:11

The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.

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Job 4:12

Now a word came to me secretly; my ears caught a whisper of it.

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secretly Heb. by stealth

Job 4:13

In disquieting visions in the night, when deep sleep falls on men,

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Job 4:14

fear and trembling came over me and made all my bones shudder.

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Heb. the multitude of my bones

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came upon Heb. met

Job 4:15

Then a spirit glided past my face, and the hair on my body bristled.

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Job 4:16

It stood still, but I could not discern its appearance; a form loomed before my eyes, and I heard a whispering voice:

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etc. or , I heard a still voice

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Job 4:17

‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?

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Job 4:18

If God puts no trust in His servants, and He charges His angels with error,

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and his angels he charged with folly2 parallels

or , nor in his angels in whom he put light

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Job 4:19

how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!

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Job 4:20

They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; unnoticed, they perish forever.

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Heb. beaten in pieces

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Job 4:21

Are not their tent cords pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?’

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