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4:1 Then Eliphaz <0464> the Temanite <08489> answered <06030>: 4:2 “If someone should attempt <05254> a word <01697> with <0413> you, will you be impatient <03811>? But who <04310> can <03201> refrain <06113> from speaking <04405>? 4:3 Look <02009>, you have instructed <03256> many <07227>; you have strengthened <02388> feeble <07504> hands <03027>. 4:4 Your words <04405> have supported <06965> those who stumbled <03782>, and you have strengthened <0553> the knees <01290> that gave way <03766>. 4:5 But <03588> now <06258> the same thing comes <0935> to <0413> you, and you are discouraged <03811>; it strikes <05060> you, and you are terrified <0926>. 4:6 Is not <03808> your piety <03373> your confidence <03690>, and your blameless <08537> ways <01870> your hope <08615>? 4:7 Call to mind <02142> now <04994>: Who <04310>, being innocent <05355>, ever perished <06>? And where <0375> were upright <03477> people ever destroyed <03582>? 4:8 Even as <0834> I have seen <07200>, those who plow <02790> iniquity <0205> and those who sow <02232> trouble <05999> reap <07114> the same. 4:9 By the breath <05397> of God <0433> they perish <06>, and by the blast <07307> of his anger <0639> they are consumed <03615>. 4:10 There is the roaring <07581> of the lion <0738> and the growling <06963> of the young lion <07826>, but the teeth <08127> of the young lions <03715> are broken <05421>. 4:11 The mighty lion <03918> perishes <06> for lack <01097> of prey <02964>, and the cubs <01121> of the lioness <03833> are scattered <06504>. 4:12 “Now a word <01697> was secretly brought <01589> to <0413> me, and my ear <0241> caught <03947> a whisper <08102> of <04480> it. 4:13 In the troubling thoughts <05587> of the dreams <02384> in the night <03915> when a deep sleep <08639> falls <05307> on <05921> men <0376>, 4:14 a trembling <07460> gripped <07122> me– and a terror <06343>!– and made all <07230> my bones <06106> shake <06342>. 4:15 Then a breath of air <07307> passes by <02498> my face <06440>; it makes the hair <08185> of my flesh <01320> stand up <05568>. 4:16 It stands still <05975>, but I cannot <03808> recognize <05234> its appearance <04758>; an image <08544> is before <05048> my eyes <05869>, and I hear <08085> a murmuring <01827> voice <06963>:

• Job 4:1-11 -- Eliphaz Begins to Speak
• Job 4:12--5:7 -- Ungodly Complainers Provoke God's Wrath

• SPIRIT

  [ebd] (Heb. ruah; Gr. pneuma), properly wind or breath. In 2 Thess. 2:8 it means "breath," and in Eccl. 8:8 the vital principle in man. It also denotes the rational, immortal soul by which man is distinguished (Acts 7:59; 1 Cor. 5...
  [isbe] SPIRIT - spir'-it (ruach; pneuma; Latin, spiritus): 1. Primary and Figurative Senses (1) As Wind, Breath (2) As Anger or Fury (3) As Mental and Moral Qualities in Man 2. Shades of Meaning (1) As Life-Principle (2) As Survivi...
  

• REAPING

  [isbe] REAPING - rep'-ing (qatsar; therizo): Reaping in ancient times, as at present, consisted in either pulling up the grain by the roots or cutting it with a sickle (see SICKLE), and then binding the stalks into bundles to be ca...
  

• PREY

  [isbe] PREY - pra (baz, Tereph, shalal): "Prey" is frequent in the Old Testament, chiefly as the translation of baz, "spoil," "plunder" (Nu 14:3,11; Dt 1:39; Isa 10:6, etc.); of Tereph, "prey of wild beasts," "torn thing" (Gen 49:9...
  

• POETRY, HEBREW

  [isbe] POETRY, HEBREW - po'-et-ri: I. IS THERE POETRY IN THE OLD TESTAMENT? Poetry Defined: 1. In Matter, Concrete and Imaginative 2. In Form, Emotional and Rhythmical II. NEGLECT OF HEBREW POETRY: CAUSES III. CHARACTERISTICS OF HE...
  

• PLOW

  [isbe] PLOW - plou (charash; arotrioo): No implement of the Bible is more frequently illustrated today than the plow. This is partly because there is every reason to believe that the plows still used throughout Egypt, Palestine, an...
  

• Lintel

  [ebd] (1.) Heb. mashkoph, a projecting cover (Ex. 12:22, 23; ver. 7, "upper door post," but R.V. "lintel"); the head-piece of a door, which the Israelites were commanded to mark with the blood of the paschal lamb. (2.) Heb. kaphta...
  

• KNEE; KNEEL

  [isbe] KNEE; KNEEL - ne nel ("knee," berekh; Aramaic 'arekhubbah; gonu; "kneel"; barakh; Aramaic berakh; gonupeto): Most of the uses are obvious, and the figurative use of "knees" as the symbol of strength (Job 4:4; Heb 12:12, etc....
  

• INIQUITY

  [isbe] INIQUITY - in-ik'-wi-ti (`awon; anomia): In the Old Testament of the 11 words translated "iniquity," by far the most common and important is `awon (about 215 times). Etymologically, it is customary to explain it as meaning l...
  

• HAIR

  [isbe] HAIR - har (se`ar, sa`ar, Aramaic se`ar, and their derivatives; thrix, gen. case trichos, kome): 1. Hair Fashions: Hair was worn in different fashions by the Orientals of Biblical times, and not always in the same way among ...
  

• GRIEF; GRIEVE

  [isbe] GRIEF; GRIEVE - gref, grev: There are some 20 Hebrew words translated in the King James Version by "grief," "grieve," "to be grieved," etc. Among the chief are chalah, choli, yaghon, ka`ac, atsabh. They differ, partly, in th...
  

• FORM

  [isbe] FORM - form (yatsar, to'ar; morphe): (1) To form is "to fashion," "create," "produce." In the Old Testament it is for the most part the translation of yatsar, "to form," "to fashion" (Gen 2:7, etc., "Yahweh God formed man of...
  

• FEEBLE KNEES

  [isbe] FEEBLE KNEES - fe'-b'-l nez: The expression. is found in three places (one being a free quotation of another): Job 4:4, "Thou hast made firm the feeble (kara`, "bending," "bowing") knees," and Heb 12:12, "Wherefore lift up t...
  

• FEAR

  [isbe] FEAR - fer (yir'ah, yare'; phobos, phobeo): Terms, etc.: "Fear" is the translation of many words in the Old Testament; the chief are: yir'ah, "fear," "terror," "reverence," "awe," most often "the fear of God," "fear of Yahwe...
  

• Eliphaz

  [smith] (God is his strength). The son of Esau and Adah, and the father of Teman. (Genesis 36:4; 1 Chronicles 1:35,36) The chief of the "three friends" of Job. He is called "the Temanite;" hence it is naturally inferred that he w...
  [nave] ELIPHAZ 1. Son of Esau, Gen. 36:4, 10-16; 1 Chr. 1:35. 2. Friend of Job, Job 2:11; 4; 5; 22; 42:7-9.
  

• ELIPHAZ (2)

  [isbe] ELIPHAZ (2) - The first and most prominent of the three friends of Job (Job 2:11), who come from distant places to condole with and comfort him, when they hear of his affliction. That he is to be regarded as their leader and...
  

• CONFIDENCE

  [isbe] CONFIDENCE - kon'-fi-dens (baTach, and forms, kecel; parrhesia; peitho, pepoithesis, hupostasis): The chief Hebrew word translated "confidence" (baTach, and its forms) means, perhaps, radically, "to be open," showing thus wh...
  

• BREATH; BREATHE; BREATHING

  [isbe] BREATH; BREATHE; BREATHING - breth, breth, breath'-ing: In the English Versions of the Bible of the Old Testament "breath" is the rendering of neshamah, and of ruach. These words differ but slightly in meaning, both signifyi...
  

• BONE; BONES

  [isbe] BONE; BONES - bon (`etsem, `otsem; Aramaic gerem, by extension used for "bony frame," "body," "strength," Ps 35:10; "the whole man"; Lk 24:39, "flesh and bones = the solid and tangible framework of the body; figuratively the...
  

• BLAST

  [isbe] BLAST - (neshamah, ruach): (1) The blowing of the breath of Yahweh, expressive of the manifestation of God's power in Nature and Providence. "With the blast of thy nostrils the waters were piled up" (Ex 15:8), referring to t...
  

• ASSAY

  [isbe] ASSAY - a-sa' (ya'al; nacah; peirdzein; peirasthai; peiran lambanein): The Hebrew and Greek words which are rendered in the King James Version "assay" are so rendered in the Revised Version (British and American), and the us...
  

• Righteous before God

  

• Eliphaz Speaking

  

• Romans 8:18 and 1Pet chapter 4 seem to imply Christians should rejoice in our suffering because of the sympathy towards the suffering of Jesus,
  The suffering I have experienced does not compare to what you have described. The problem of pain is one that requires much more than a glib response. Indeed, the answer is probably the content of a book -- one...

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