Thematic Bible

Job 4:1

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:

Job 4:2

"If one ventures a word with you, will you be impatient? Yet who can keep from speaking?
No Themes for this verse.

Job 4:3

Behold, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened the weak hands.
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Job 4:4

Your words have upheld him who was stumbling, and you have made firm the feeble knees.

Job 4:5

But now it has come to you, and you are impatient; it touches you, and you are dismayed.
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Job 4:6

Is not your fear of God your confidence, and the integrity of your ways your hope?
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Job 4:7

"Remember: who that was innocent ever perished? Or where were the upright cut off?
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Job 4:8

As I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same.

Job 4:9

By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they are consumed.

Job 4:10

The roar of the lion, the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions are broken.

Job 4:11

The strong lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.

Job 4:12

"Now a word was brought to me stealthily; my ear received the whisper of it.

Job 4:13

Amid thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,

Job 4:14

dread came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake.

Job 4:15

A spirit glided past my face; the hair of my flesh stood up.

Job 4:16

It stood still, but I could not discern its appearance. A form was before my eyes; there was silence, then I heard a voice:

Job 4:17

'Can mortal man be in the right before God? Can a man be pure before his Maker?

Job 4:18

Even in his servants he puts no trust, and his angels he charges with error;

Job 4:19

how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like the moth.

Job 4:20

Between morning and evening they are beaten to pieces; they perish forever without anyone regarding it.

Job 4:21

Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them, do they not die, and that without wisdom?'