Eliphaz: Job Has Sinned

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:

If one attempts a word with you, will you become weary?
But who can withhold himself from speaking?
Surely you have instructed many,
And you (A)have strengthened weak hands.
Your words have upheld him who was stumbling,
And you (B)have strengthened the [a]feeble knees;
But now it comes upon you, and you are weary;
It touches you, and you are troubled.
Is not (C)your reverence (D)your confidence?
And the integrity of your ways your hope?

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Footnotes

  1. Job 4:4 Lit. bending

Eliphaz’s First Response to Job

Then[a] Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,

If someone would test a word with you, would you be offended?
But[b] who can refrain from speaking?
Look, you have instructed many,
and you have strengthened weak hands.
Your words have raised up the one who stumbles,
and you have strengthened knees giving way.
But now it has come to you, and you are worn out;
it touches you, and you are horrified.
Is not your fear in God your confidence?
Is not your hope even[c] the integrity of your ways?

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Footnotes

  1. Job 4:1 Hebrew “And”
  2. Job 4:2 Hebrew “And”
  3. Job 4:6 Hebrew “and”