Job 4

Eliphaz Speaks: Job Has Sinned

1Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered:

2 # Job 32.18–20 “If one ventures a word with you, will you be offended?

But who can keep from speaking?

3 # Isa 35.3; Heb 12.12 See, you have instructed many;

you have strengthened the weak hands.

4 # Isa 35.3; Heb 12.12 Your words have supported those who were stumbling,

and you have made firm the feeble knees.

5 # Job 6.14; 19.21 But now it has come to you, and you are impatient;

it touches you, and you are dismayed.

6 # Job 1.1 Is not your fear of God your confidence

and the integrity of your ways your hope?

7 # Ps 37.25 “Think now, who that was innocent ever perished?

Or where were the upright cut off?

8 # Prov 22.8; Hos 10.13; Gal 6.7, 8 As I have seen, those who plow iniquity

and sow trouble reap the same.

9 # Job 15.30; Ps 59.13; Isa 30.33 By the breath of God they perish,

and by the blast of his anger they are consumed.

10 # Ps 58.6 The roar of the lion, the voice of the fierce lion,

and the teeth of the young lions are broken.

11 # Ps 34.10 The strong lion perishes for lack of prey,

and the whelps of the lioness are scattered.

12 # Job 26.14 “Now a word came stealing to me;

my ear received the whisper of it.

13Amid thoughts from visions of the night,

when deep sleep falls on mortals,

14 # Jer 23.9 dread came upon me and trembling,

which made all my bones shake.

15A spirit glided past my face;

the hair of my flesh bristled.

16It stood still,

but I could not discern its appearance.

A form was before my eyes;

there was silence; then I heard a voice:

17 # Job 9.2; 35.10 ‘Can mortals be righteous before#4.17 Or more righteous than God?

Can humans be pure before#4.17 Or more pure than their Maker?

18 # Job 15.15 Even in his servants he puts no trust,

and his angels he charges with error;

19 # Job 10.9; 22.16 how much more those who live in houses of clay,

whose foundation is in the dust,

who are crushed like a moth.

20 # Job 20.7; Ps 90.5, 6 Between morning and evening they are destroyed;

they perish forever without any regarding it.

21 # Job 36.12 Their tent cord is plucked up within them,

and they die devoid of wisdom.’

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