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Text -- Job 4:1-6 (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?
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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: Heathen | Eliphaz | Job | Presumption | Doubting | Wisdom | Afflictions and Adversities | FEEBLE KNEES | CONFIDENCE | GRIEF; GRIEVE | KNEE; KNEEL | POETRY, HEBREW | ASSAY | 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...

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