Job 4

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¹Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, ✦ ²If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking? ✦ ³Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands. ✦ ⁴Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees. ✦ ⁵But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled. ✦ ⁶Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways? ✦ ⁷Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off? ✦ ⁸Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same. ✦ ⁹By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed. ✦ ¹⁰The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken. ✦ ¹¹The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion’s whelps are scattered abroad. ✦ ¹²Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof. ✦ ¹³In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, ✦ ¹⁴Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. ✦ ¹⁵Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up: ✦ ¹⁶It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying, ✦ ¹⁷Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker? ✦ ¹⁸Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly: ✦ ¹⁹How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth? ✦ ²⁰They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it. ✦ ²¹Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom. ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Job 15 ·5 Job 8 ·5 Job 1 ·5 Job 14 ·5 Heb 12 ·4 Ps 39 ·4 Job 9 ·3 Gen 18 ·3

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Job's cry for a mediator who can lay his hand on both God and man, and his confidence that 'my Redeemer lives' and will stand on the earth, reaches forward to Jesus the living Redeemer.

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