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Job 4:1

Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Scofield Reference Index - Eliphaz;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Justice of God, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Eliphaz;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Greatness of God;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Job, the Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Job;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Eliphaz ;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Debts;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
Hebrew Names Version
Then Elifaz the Temanite answered,
King James Version
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
English Standard Version
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:
New Century Version
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered:
New English Translation
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered:
Amplified Bible
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
New American Standard Bible
Then Eliphaz the Temanite responded,
World English Bible
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, and sayde,
Legacy Standard Bible
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
Contemporary English Version
Eliphaz's First Speech Eliphaz from Teman said:
Complete Jewish Bible
Then Elifaz the Teimani spoke up:
Darby Translation
And Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
Easy-to-Read Version
Eliphaz from Teman answered:
George Lamsa Translation
THEN Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
Good News Translation
Job, will you be annoyed if I speak? I can't keep quiet any longer. <
Lexham English Bible
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
Literal Translation
And Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then answered Eliphas of Theman and sayde vnto him:
American Standard Version
Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
Bible in Basic English
And Eliphaz the Temanite made answer and said,
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Eliphas the Themanite aunswered, & sayde:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said:
King James Version (1611)
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, and said,
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Then Eliphaz the Thaemanite answered and said,
English Revised Version
Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe Eliphat Themanytes answeride, and seide,
Update Bible Version
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, and said,
Webster's Bible Translation
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
New King James Version
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:
New Living Translation
Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied to Job:
New Life Bible
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
New Revised Standard
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered:
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then responded Eliphaz the Temanite, and said: -
Douay-Rheims Bible
Then Eliphaz, the Themanite, answered, and said:
Revised Standard Version
Then Eli'phaz the Te'manite answered:
Young's Literal Translation
And Eliphaz the Temanite answereth and saith: --
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,

Contextual Overview

1Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:2"If one ventures a word with you, will you be wearied? Yet who can keep from speaking? 3Surely you have instructed many, and have strengthened their feeble hands. 4Your words have steadied those who stumbled; you have stabilized the knees that were buckling. 5But now trouble has come upon you, and you are weary. It strikes you, and you are dismayed. 6Is your reverence not your confidence, and the uprightness of your ways your hope?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Eliphaz: Job 2:11, Job 15:1, Job 22:1, Job 42:9

answered: Job 3:1, Job 3:2, Job 6:1, Job 8:1

Reciprocal: Genesis 36:15 - duke Teman Job 42:7 - Eliphaz Jeremiah 49:7 - Teman

Cross-References

Genesis 3:15
And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel."
Genesis 4:25
And Adam again had relations with his wife, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, saying, "God has granted me another seed in place of Abel, since Cain killed him."
Genesis 5:29
And he named him Noah, saying, "May this one comfort us in the labor and toil of our hands caused by the ground that the LORD has cursed."
Numbers 31:17
So now, kill all the boys, and kill every woman who has had relations with a man,
1 John 3:12
Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he slay him? Because his own deeds were evil, while those of his brother were righteous.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said. When Job was done cursing his day, and had finished his doleful ditty on that subject, then Eliphaz took the opportunity of speaking, not being able to bear any longer with Job and his behaviour under his afflictions; Eliphaz was one of Job's three friends that came to visit him, Job 2:11; very probably he might be the senior man, or a man of the greatest authority and power; a most respectable person, had in great esteem and reverence among men, and by these his friends, and therefore takes upon him to speak first; or it may be it was agreed among themselves that he should begin the dispute with Job; and we find, that in the close of this controversy the Lord speaks to him by name, and to him only, Job 42:7; he "answered"; not that Job directed his discourse to him, but he took occasion, from Job's afflictions and his passionate expressions, to say what he did; and he "said" not anything by way of condolence or consolation, not pitying Job's case, nor comforting him in his afflicted circumstances, as they required both; but reproaching him as a wicked and hypocritical man, not acting like himself formerly, or according to his profession and principles, but just the reverse: this was a new trial to Job, and some think the sorest of all; it was as a sword in his bones, which was very cutting to him; as oil cast into a fiery furnace in which he now was, which increased the force and fury of it; and as to vinegar an opened and bleeding wound, which makes it smart the more.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered - See the notes at Job 2:11.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER IV

Eliphaz answers; and accuses Job of impatience, and of

despondence in the time of adversity, 1-6;

asserts that no innocent man ever perished, and that the wicked

are afflicted for their sins, 7-11;

relates a vision that he had, 12-16,

and what was said to him on the occasion, 17-21.

NOTES ON CHAP. IV

Verse Job 4:1. Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered — For seven days this person and his two friends had observed a profound silence, being awed and confounded at the sight of Job's unprecedented affliction. Having now sufficiently contemplated his afflicted state, and heard his bitter complaint, forgetting that he came as a comforter, and not as a reprover, he loses the feeling of the friend in the haughtiness of the censor, endeavouring to strip him of his only consolation, - the testimony of his conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not in fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, he had his conversation among men, - by insinuating that if his ways had been upright, he would not have been abandoned to such distress and affliction; and if his heart possessed that righteousness of which he boasted, he would not have been so suddenly cast down by adversity.


 
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