Job 4:1

Then responded Eliphaz the Temanite, and said:—

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,

In Context

2If one attempt a word unto thee, wilt thou be impatient? But, to restrain speech, who, can endure?

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Cross References

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

Job 8:1Then responded Bildad the Shuhite, and said:—

Job 22:1Then responded Eliphaz the Temanite, and said:—

Jeremiah 49:7Of Edom—Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, Is there no longer wisdom in Teman? Hath counsel perished from the discerning? Is their wisdom corrupt?

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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