Job 4:1

But Eliphaz the Themanite, answering, said:

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Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,

In Context

2If we start to speak to you, perhaps you will take it badly, but who can hold back the words he has conceived?

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Cross References

Job 3:1After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed his day,

Job 8:1But Baldad the Suhite, responding, said:

Job 22:1Then Eliphaz the Themanite responded by saying:

Jeremiah 49:7Against Idumea. Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Is there no longer any wisdom in Teman? Counsel has perished from the sons. Their wisdom has become useless.

Matthew Henry on Job 4:1

Job having warmly given vent to his passion, and so broken the ice, his friends here come gravely to give vent to their judgment upon his case, which perhaps they had communicated to one another apart, compared notes upon it and talked it over among themselves, and found they were all agreed in their verdict, that Job's afflictions certainly proved him to be a hypocrite; but they did not attack Job with this high charge till by the expressions of his discontent and impatience, in which they thought he reflected on… Read the whole commentary →

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