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    Job · 21 verses

    Job 4

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    A spirit glides past Eliphaz’s face, stops, and still refuses to become visible.

    The comforter turns examinervv. 1–11

    Eliphaz begins by praising Job as the man who taught the many and braced the stumbling. Then trouble reaches that very man, and the speech pivots neatly from admiration to interrogation: can innocence really perish? His answer arrives in the language of fields and lions—those who sow trouble reap it, while even the great beasts lose their teeth, their prey, and their cubs.

    The whisper in the darkvv. 12–21

    Then Eliphaz produces a night vision, with the peculiar difficulty that the apparition is both passing and stationary, both present and impossible to make out. Fear shudders through him; the form offers a whisper about God’s purity, the fallibility of servants and angels, and the fragility of people in houses of clay. At the end, human life is reduced to a tent whose cords are pulled up—an almost homely image for a very unhomely conclusion.

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    1. Job 4:1Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

    2. Job 4:2“If one ventures a word with you, will you be wearied? Yet who can keep from speaking?

    3. Job 4:3Surely you have instructed many, and have strengthened their feeble hands.

    4. Job 4:4Your words have steadied those who stumbled; you have braced the knees that were buckling.

    5. Job 4:5But now trouble has come upon you, and you are weary. It strikes you, and you are dismayed.

    6. Job 4:6Is your reverence not your confidence, and the uprightness of your ways your hope?

    7. Job 4:7Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?

    8. Job 4:8As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.

    9. Job 4:9By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of His anger they are consumed.

    10. Job 4:10The lion may roar, and the fierce lion may growl, yet the teeth of the young lions are broken.

    11. Job 4:11The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.

    12. Job 4:12Now a word came to me secretly; my ears caught a whisper of it.

    13. Job 4:13In disquieting visions in the night, when deep sleep falls on men,

    14. Job 4:14fear and trembling came over me and made all my bones shudder.

    15. Job 4:15Then a spirit glided past my face, and the hair on my body bristled.

    16. Job 4:16It stood still, but I could not discern its appearance; a form loomed before my eyes, and I heard a whispering voice:

    17. Job 4:17‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?

    18. Job 4:18If God puts no trust in His servants, and He charges His angels with error,

    19. Job 4:19how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!

    20. Job 4:20They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; unnoticed, they perish forever.

    21. Job 4:21Are not their tent cords pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?’’’

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    02 — Read alongside

    Where this is echoed

    Readers' own connections, from OpenBible's crowd-voted cross-references — agreement about relevance, and not scholarly confidence. 212 passages were voted onto 21 verses of this chapter; the 16 shown lead on votes, and each is listed at the verse it was voted onto most strongly.

    • 6Proverbs 3:26for the LORD will be your confidence and will keep your foot from the snare.
    • 6Proverbs 14:26He who fears the LORD is secure in confidence, and his children shall have a place of refuge.
    • 6Job 1:1There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. And this man was blameless and upright, fearing God and shunning evil.
    • 8Galatians 6:7–8Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked. Whatever a man sows, he will reap in return.
    • 6Job 17:15where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me?
    • 8Proverbs 22:8He who sows injustice will reap disaster, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.
    • 6Job 23:11–12My feet have followed in His tracks; I have kept His way without turning aside.
    • 8Hosea 8:7For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it should produce, the foreigners would swallow it up.
    • 6Job 16:17yet my hands are free of violence and my prayer is pure.
    • 6Job 13:15Though He slay me, I will hope in Him. I will still defend my ways to His face.
    • 7Psalms 37:25I once was young and now am old, yet never have I seen the righteous abandoned or their children begging for bread.
    • 17Job 9:2“Yes, I know that it is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?
    • 62 Kings 20:3“Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with wholehearted devotion; I have done what is good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
    • 61 Peter 1:13Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober-minded. Set your hope fully on the grace to be given you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
    • 8Job 15:35They conceive trouble and give birth to evil; their womb is pregnant with deceit.”
    • 8Jeremiah 4:18“Your ways and deeds have brought this upon you. This is your punishment; how bitter it is, because it pierces to the heart!”

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