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Job 4:1
1Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
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Context of Job 4:1
Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied: 2Should anyone try to speak with you when you are exhausted? Yet who can keep from speaking? 3Indeed, you have instructed many and have strengthened weak hands.
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וַ֭יַּעַן אֱלִיפַ֥ז הַֽתֵּימָנִ֗י וַיֹּאמַֽר׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 4:1
- Job 2:11Now when Job’s three friends — Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite — heard about all this adversity that had happened to him, each of them came from his home. They met together to go and sympathize with him and comfort him.
- Job 15:1Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
- Job 22:1Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
- Job 42:9Then Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite went and did as the Lord had told them, and the Lord accepted Job’s prayer.
- Job 3:1After this, Job began to speak and cursed the day he was born.
- Job 6:1Then Job answered:
- Job 8:1Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
Commentaries on Job 4:1
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 1Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered - For seven days this person and his two friends had observed a profound silence, being awed and confounded at the sight of Job's unprecedented affliction. Having now sufficiently contemplated his afflicted state, and heard his bitter complaint, forgetting that he came as a comforter, and not as a reprover, he loses the feeling of the friend in the haughtiness of the censor, endeavoring to strip him of his only…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 1Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered - See the notes at Job 2:11.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 1Eliphaz reproves Job. (1-6) And maintains that God's judgments are for the wicked. (7-11) The vision of Eliphaz. (12-21) Verses 1-6 Satan undertook to prove Job a hypocrite by afflicting him; and his friends concluded him to be one because he was so afflicted, and showed impatience. This we must keep in mind if we would understand what passed. Eliphaz speaks of Job, and his afflicted condition, with tenderness; but charges him with weakness and…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1This section starts three rounds of speeches by Job's three "comforters," each followed by Job's response (4:1–27:23). In the first round, Job's friends urge him to seek God to regain prosperity.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-211. Eliphaz--the mildest of Job's three accusers. The greatness of Job's calamities, his complaints against God, and the opinion that calamities are proofs of guilt, led the three to doubt Job's integrity.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 4
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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