Job 4:1

Then Eliphaz the Themanite answered, and said:

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,

In Context

2If we begin to speak to thee, perhaps thou wilt take it ill, but who can withhold the words he hath conceived?

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Cross References

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

Job 8:1The Baldad the Suhite answered, and said:

Job 22:1Then Eliphaz the Themanite answered, and said:

Jeremiah 49:7Against Edom. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Is wisdom no more in Theman? counsel is perished from her children: their wisdom is become unprofitable.

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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