Job 4:1

Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

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In The King James Version

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,

In Context

2“If one ventures a word with you, will you be wearied? Yet who can keep from speaking?

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Cross References

Job 3:1After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.

Job 8:1Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:

Job 22:1Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

Jeremiah 49:7Concerning Edom, this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Is there no longer wisdom in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom decayed?

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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