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Eliphaz Speaks: Job Has Sinned

Then Eli′phaz the Te′manite answered:

“If one ventures a word with you, will you be offended?
    Yet who can keep from speaking?
Behold, you have instructed many,
    and you have strengthened the weak hands.
Your words have upheld him who was stumbling,
    and you have made firm the feeble knees.
But now it has come to you, and you are impatient;
    it touches you, and you are dismayed.
Is not your fear of God your confidence,
    and the integrity of your ways your hope?

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Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,

If one assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved?
But who can withhold himself from speaking?
Behold, thou hast instructed many,
And thou hast strengthened the weak hands.
Thy words have upholden him that was falling,
And thou hast made firm the [a]feeble knees.
But now it is come unto thee, and thou [b]faintest;
It toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.
Is not thy fear of God thy confidence,
And the integrity of thy ways thy hope?

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Footnotes

  1. Job 4:4 Hebrew bowing
  2. Job 4:5 Or, art grieved