Job · Updated Brenton English Septuagint
Job 4 Updated Brenton English Septuagint
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- Same Septuagint text as Brenton, with modernised spelling.
1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
2 Hast thou been often spoken to in distress? But who shall endure the force of thy words?
2 “If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?
3 For whereas thou hast instructed many, And hast strengthened the hands of the weak one,
3 Behold, you have instructed many, you have strengthened the weak hands.
4 And hast supported the failing with words, And hast imparted courage to feeble knees.
4 Your words have supported him who was falling, you have made the feeble knees firm.
5 Yet now [that] pain has come upon thee, and touched thee, thou art troubled.
5 But now it has come to you, and you faint. It touches you, and you are troubled.
6 Is not thy fear [founded] in folly, Thy hope also, and the mischief of thy way?
6 Isn’t your piety your confidence? Isn’t the integrity of your ways your hope?
7 Remember then who has perished, being pure? Or when were the truehearted utterly destroyed?
7 “Remember, now, who ever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?
8 Accordingly as I have seen men plowing barren places, And they that sow them will reap sorrows for themselves.
8 According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble, reap the same.
9 They shall perish by the command of the Lord, And shall be utterly consumed by the breath of his wrath.
9 By the breath of God they perish. By the blast of his anger are they consumed.
10 The strength of the lion, and the voice of the lioness, And the exulting cry of serpents are quenched.
10 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
11 The old lion has perished for want of food, And the lions’ whelps have forsaken one another.
11 The old lion perishes for lack of prey. The cubs of the lioness are scattered abroad.
12 But if there had been any truth in thy words, None of these evils would have befallen thee. Shall not mine ear receive excellent [revelations] from him?
12 “Now a thing was secretly brought to me. My ear received a whisper of it.
13 But [as when] terror falls upon men, With dread and a sound in the night,
13 In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,
14 Horror and trembling seized me, And caused all my bones greatly to shake.
14 fear came on me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake.
15 And a spirit came before my face; And my hair and flesh quivered.
15 Then a spirit passed before my face. The hair of my flesh stood up.
16 I arose and perceived it not: I looked, and there was no form before my eyes: But I only heard a breath and a voice, [saying],
16 It stood still, but I couldn’t discern its appearance. A form was before my eyes. Silence, then I heard a voice, saying,
17 What, shall a mortal be pure before the Lord? Or a man be blameless in regard to his works?
17 ‘Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?
18 Whereas he trusts not in his servants, And perceives perverseness in his angels.
18 Behold, he puts no trust in his servants. He charges his angels with error.
19 But [as for] them that dwell in houses of clay, Of whom we also are formed of the same clay, He smites them like a moth.
19 How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!
20 And from morning to evening they no longer exist: They have perished, because they cannot help themselves.
20 Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.
21 For he blows upon them, and they are withered: They have perished for lack of wisdom.
21 Isn’t their tent cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.’
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Eliphaz the Temanite
One of Job's three friends who came to sympathize and comfort him, and whom the LORD rebuked at the end of the book for not speaking rightly of Him.
Cited in the guide: Job 2:11; Job 4:1; Job 15:1
Cross references (21)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Job 6:1; Job 8:1; Job 2:11; Job 22:1; Job 15:1
- 2 Job 32:18–20; Acts 4:20; Jeremiah 6:11; Jeremiah 20:9; 2 Corinthians 2:4–6
- 3 Isaiah 35:3; Proverbs 10:21; Hebrews 12:12; Luke 22:32; Job 16:5
- 4 1 Thessalonians 5:14; Proverbs 12:18; Psalm 145:14; Hebrews 12:12; Proverbs 16:23–24
- 5 Job 19:21; 2 Corinthians 4:16; Job 1:11; Hebrews 12:5; Proverbs 24:10
- 6 Proverbs 3:26; Proverbs 14:26; Job 1:1; Job 17:15; Job 23:11–12
- 7 Psalm 37:25; Job 36:7; 2 Peter 2:9; Acts 28:4; Job 8:20
- 8 Galatians 6:7–8; Proverbs 22:8; Hosea 8:7; 2 Corinthians 9:6; Hosea 10:12–13
- 9 Job 15:30; Isaiah 11:4; 2 Thessalonians 2:8; Isaiah 30:33; Revelation 2:16
- 10 Psalm 58:6; Psalm 3:7; Psalm 57:4; Proverbs 30:14; Job 5:15
- 11 Psalm 34:10; Job 38:39; Job 8:3–4; Job 1:19; Jeremiah 4:7
- 12 Job 26:14; Psalm 62:11; 1 Corinthians 13:12
- 13 Job 33:14–16; Genesis 2:21; Genesis 15:12; Daniel 10:9; Daniel 4:5
- 14 Revelation 1:17; Job 33:19; Luke 1:12; Job 7:14; Psalm 119:120
- 15 Hebrews 1:7; Luke 24:37–39; Psalm 104:4; Daniel 5:6; Isaiah 21:3–4
- 16 1 Kings 19:12
- 17 Job 9:2; Job 25:4; Ecclesiastes 7:20; Psalm 143:2; Jeremiah 17:9
- 18 Job 25:5–6; 2 Peter 2:4; Jude 6; Job 15:15–16; Psalm 104:4
- 19 Job 10:9; Genesis 2:7; Genesis 3:19; Job 33:6; Psalm 39:11
- 20 Job 20:7; 2 Chronicles 21:20; Psalm 39:13; Job 18:17; Proverbs 10:7
- 21 Job 36:12; Luke 16:22–23; Job 8:22; Psalm 39:11; Luke 12:20
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