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Text -- Job 4:1-19 (NET)

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Eliphaz Begins to Speak
4:1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered: 4:2 “If someone should attempt a word with you, will you be impatient? But who can refrain from speaking? 4:3 Look, you have instructed many; you have strengthened feeble hands. 4:4 Your words have supported those who stumbled, and you have strengthened the knees that gave way. 4:5 But now the same thing comes to you, and you are discouraged; it strikes you, and you are terrified. 4:6 Is not your piety your confidence, and your blameless ways your hope? 4:7 Call to mind now: Who, being innocent, ever perished? And where were upright people ever destroyed? 4:8 Even as I have seen, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same. 4:9 By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they are consumed. 4:10 There is the roaring of the lion and the growling of the young lion, but the teeth of the young lions are broken. 4:11 The mighty lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
Ungodly Complainers Provoke God’s Wrath
4:12 “Now a word was secretly brought to me, and my ear caught a whisper of it. 4:13 In the troubling thoughts of the dreams in the night when a deep sleep falls on men, 4:14 a trembling gripped me– and a terror!– and made all my bones shake. 4:15 Then a breath of air passes by my face; it makes the hair of my flesh stand up. 4:16 It stands still, but I cannot recognize its appearance; an image is before my eyes, and I hear a murmuring voice: 4:17 “Is a mortal man righteous before God? Or a man pure before his Creator? 4:18 If God puts no trust in his servants and attributes folly to his angels, 4:19 how much more to those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth?
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics

Names, People and Places:
 · Eliphaz son of Esau,a man of Teman who was a friend of Job
 · Temanite resident(s) of the region of Teman


Dictionary Themes and Topics: Eliphaz | Heathen | Job | Presumption | Faith | ELIPHAZ (2) | Dream | Angel | Vision | Doubting | God | Moth | Wisdom | Lion | Mankind | Immortality | Depravity of Mankind | Lintel | Afflictions and Adversities | SPIRIT | more
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NET Notes: Job 4:1 Heb “answered and said.”

NET Notes: Job 4:2 The construction uses a noun with the preposition: “and to refrain with words – who is able?” The Aramaic plural of “wordsR...

NET Notes: Job 4:3 The “feeble hands” are literally “hands hanging down.” This is a sign of weakness, helplessness, or despondency (see 2 Sam 4:1...

NET Notes: Job 4:4 Job had been successful at helping others not be crushed by the weight of trouble and misfortune. It is easier to help others than to preserve a prope...

NET Notes: Job 4:5 This final verb in the verse is vivid; it means “to terrify, dismay” (here the Niphal preterite). Job will go on to speak about all the te...

NET Notes: Job 4:6 Eliphaz is not being sarcastic to Job. He knows that Job is a God-fearing man who lives out his faith in life. But he also knows that Job should apply...

NET Notes: Job 4:7 The Niphal means “to be hidden” (see the Piel in 6:10; 15:18; and 27:11); the connotation here is “destroyed” or “annihi...

NET Notes: Job 4:8 Heb “reap it.”

NET Notes: Job 4:9 The word רוּחַ (ruakh) is now parallel to נְשָׁמָה (nÿshamah); both...

NET Notes: Job 4:10 The verb belongs to the subject “teeth” in this last colon; but it is used by zeugma (a figure of speech in which one word is made to refe...

NET Notes: Job 4:11 The text literally has “sons of the lioness.”

NET Notes: Job 4:12 The word שֵׁמֶץ (shemets, “whisper”) is found only here and in Job 26:14. A cognate form שׁ...

NET Notes: Job 4:13 The word תַּרְדֵּמָה (tardemah) is a “deep sleep.” It is used in the cre...

NET Notes: Job 4:14 The subject of the Hiphil verb הִפְחִיד (hifkhid, “dread”) is פַּח...

NET Notes: Job 4:15 The subject of this verb is also רוּחַ (ruakh, “spirit”), since it can assume either gender. The “hair...

NET Notes: Job 4:16 The colon reads “a silence and a voice I hear.” Some have rendered it “there is a silence, and then I hear.” The verb ד&...

NET Notes: Job 4:17 The double question here merely repeats the same question with different words (see GKC 475 §150.h). The second member could just as well have be...

NET Notes: Job 4:18 The word תָּהֳלָה (toholah) is a hapax legomenon, and so has created some confusion in the various tra...

NET Notes: Job 4:19 The prepositional compound לִפְנֵי (lifne) normally has the sense of “before,” but it has been u...

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