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Job 4 Literal Standard Version

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  • OT: Masoretic Hebrew
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  • 2020
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1 And Eliphaz the Temanite answers and says: 2 “Has one tried a word with you? You are weary! And who is able to keep in words? 3 Behold, you have instructed many, || And feeble hands you make strong. 4 Your words raise up the stumbling one, || And you strengthen bowing knees. 5 But now, it comes to you, || And you are weary; It strikes to you, and you are troubled. 6 Is your reverence not your confidence? Your hope—the perfection of your ways? 7 Now remember, || Who, being innocent, has perished? And where have the upright been cut off? 8 As I have seen—plowers of iniquity, || And sowers of misery, reap it! 9 From the breath of God they perish, || And from the spirit of His anger [are] consumed. 10 The roaring of a lion, || And the voice of a fierce lion, || And teeth of young lions have been broken. 11 An old lion is perishing without prey, || And the whelps of the lioness separate. 12 And a thing is secretly brought to me, || And my ear receives a little of it. 13 In thoughts from visions of the night, || In the falling of deep sleep on men, 14 Fear has met me, and trembling, || And the multitude of my bones caused to fear. 15 And a spirit passes before my face, || The hair of my flesh stands up; 16 It stands, and I do not discern its aspect, || A likeness [is] before my eyes, || Silence! And I hear a voice: 17 Is mortal man more righteous than God? Is a man cleaner than his Maker? 18 Behold, He puts no credence in His servants, || Nor sets praise in His messengers. 19 Also—the inhabitants of houses of clay || (Whose foundation [is] in the dust, || They bruise them before a moth). 20 From morning to evening are beaten down, || Without any regarding, they perish forever. 21 Has their excellence not been removed with them? They die, and not in wisdom!”

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  • Eliphaz the Temanite

    First friend of Job

    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. 1 Job 6:1; Job 8:1; Job 2:11; Job 22:1; Job 15:1
  2. 2 Job 32:18–20; Acts 4:20; Jeremiah 6:11; Jeremiah 20:9; 2 Corinthians 2:4–6
  3. 3 Isaiah 35:3; Proverbs 10:21; Hebrews 12:12; Luke 22:32; Job 16:5
  4. 4 1 Thessalonians 5:14; Proverbs 12:18; Psalm 145:14; Hebrews 12:12; Proverbs 16:23–24
  5. 5 Job 19:21; 2 Corinthians 4:16; Job 1:11; Hebrews 12:5; Proverbs 24:10
  6. 6 Proverbs 3:26; Proverbs 14:26; Job 1:1; Job 17:15; Job 23:11–12
  7. 7 Psalm 37:25; Job 36:7; 2 Peter 2:9; Acts 28:4; Job 8:20
  8. 8 Galatians 6:7–8; Proverbs 22:8; Hosea 8:7; 2 Corinthians 9:6; Hosea 10:12–13
  9. 9 Job 15:30; Isaiah 11:4; 2 Thessalonians 2:8; Isaiah 30:33; Revelation 2:16
  10. 10 Psalm 58:6; Psalm 3:7; Psalm 57:4; Proverbs 30:14; Job 5:15
  11. 11 Psalm 34:10; Job 38:39; Job 8:3–4; Job 1:19; Jeremiah 4:7
  12. 12 Job 26:14; Psalm 62:11; 1 Corinthians 13:12
  13. 13 Job 33:14–16; Genesis 2:21; Genesis 15:12; Daniel 10:9; Daniel 4:5
  14. 14 Revelation 1:17; Job 33:19; Luke 1:12; Job 7:14; Psalm 119:120
  15. 15 Hebrews 1:7; Luke 24:37–39; Psalm 104:4; Daniel 5:6; Isaiah 21:3–4
  16. 16 1 Kings 19:12
  17. 17 Job 9:2; Job 25:4; Ecclesiastes 7:20; Psalm 143:2; Jeremiah 17:9
  18. 18 Job 25:5–6; 2 Peter 2:4; Jude 6; Job 15:15–16; Psalm 104:4
  19. 19 Job 10:9; Genesis 2:7; Genesis 3:19; Job 33:6; Psalm 39:11
  20. 20 Job 20:7; 2 Chronicles 21:20; Psalm 39:13; Job 18:17; Proverbs 10:7
  21. 21 Job 36:12; Luke 16:22–23; Job 8:22; Psalm 39:11; Luke 12:20

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences