Thematic Bible

Job 4:1

Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

Job 4:2

Should anyone try to speak with you
when you are exhausted?
Yet who can keep from speaking?
No Themes for this verse.

Job 4:3

Indeed, you have instructed many
and have strengthened weak hands.
No Themes for this verse.

Job 4:4

Your words have steadied the one who was stumbling
and braced the knees that were buckling.

Job 4:5

But now that this has happened to you,
you have become exhausted.
It strikes you, and you are dismayed.
No Themes for this verse.

Job 4:6

Isn’t your piety your confidence,
and the integrity of your life your hope?
No Themes for this verse.

Job 4:7

Consider: who has perished when he was innocent?
Where have the honest been destroyed?
No Themes for this verse.

Job 4:8

In my experience, those who plow injustice
and those who sow trouble reap the same.

Job 4:9

They perish at a single blast from God
and come to an end by the breath of His nostrils.

Job 4:10

The lion may roar and the fierce lion growl,
but the fangs of young lions are broken.

Job 4:11

The strong lion dies if it catches no prey,
and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.

Job 4:12

A word was brought to me in secret;
my ears caught a whisper of it.

Job 4:13

Among unsettling thoughts from visions in the night,
when deep sleep descends on men,

Job 4:14

fear and trembling came over me
and made all my bones shake.

Job 4:15

A wind passed by me,
and I shuddered with fear.

Job 4:16

A figure stood there,
but I could not recognize its appearance;
a form loomed before my eyes.
I heard a quiet voice:

Job 4:17

“Can a person be more righteous than God,
or a man more pure than his Maker?”

Job 4:18

If God puts no trust in His servants
and He charges His angels with foolishness,

Job 4:19

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

Job 4:20

They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk;
they perish forever while no one notices.

Job 4:21

Are their tent cords not pulled up?
They die without wisdom.


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