Job 4:1
Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said:
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
In Context
2If one venture a word unto thee, wilt thou be weary? But who can withhold himself from speaking?
Cross References
Job 3:1After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
Job 8:1Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said:
Job 22:1Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said:
Jeremiah 49:7Of Edom. Thus saith the LORD of hosts: Is wisdom no more in Teman? Is counsel perished from the prudent? Is their wisdom vanished?
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 →