Job 4:1
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered Job.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
In Context
2“Could I say a word? I don't want to upset you but who could keep quiet and not respond?
Cross References
Job 3:1After this Job began speaking, cursing the day of his birth.
Job 8:1Then Bildad the Shuhite spoke up and said,
Job 22:1Then Eliphaz the Temanite responded and said,
Jeremiah 49:7This is what the Lord Almighty says about Edom: Aren't there any wise people left in Teman? Isn't there any good advice from those with insight? Has their wisdom rotted away?
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 →