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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”

First Series of Speeches

Eliphaz Speaks

Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

Should anyone try to speak with you
when you are exhausted?
Yet who can keep from speaking?
Indeed, you have instructed many
and have strengthened(A) weak hands.
Your words have steadied the one who was stumbling
and braced the knees that were buckling.(B)
But now that this has happened to you,
you have become exhausted.
It strikes(C) you, and you are dismayed.
Isn’t your piety your confidence,
and the integrity of your life[a] your hope?(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 4:6 Lit ways