Job 4:1-8

Eliphaz Speaks: The Innocent Prosper

1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:

2 "If one ventures a word with you, will you be impatient?
Yet who can keep from speaking?
 3 Behold, you have instructed many,
and you have a strengthened the weak hands.
 4 Your words have upheld him who was stumbling,
and you have a made firm the feeble knees.
 5 But now it has come to you, and you are impatient;
it touches you, and you are dismayed.
 6 b Is not your fear of God 1 your c confidence,
and the integrity of your ways your hope?

7 "Remember: d who that was innocent ever perished?
Or where were the upright cut off?
 8 As I have seen, those who e plow iniquity
and sow trouble reap the same.

  1. Cross References
    Isaiah 35:3
    Strengthen the weak hands, and make firm the feeble knees.
    Hebrews 12:12
    Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees.
  2. Cross References
    Job 4:3
    Behold, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened the weak hands.
  3. Cross References
    Job 1:1
    There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil.
  4. Cross References
    Job 31:24
    If I have made gold my trust or called fine gold my confidence.
    Proverbs 3:26
    For the Lord will be your confidence and will keep your foot from being caught.
  5. Cross References
    Psalms 37:25
    I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken or his children begging for bread.
  6. Cross References
    Hosea 10:13
    You have plowed iniquity; you have reaped injustice; you have eaten the fruit of lies. Because you have trusted in your own way and in the multitude of your warriors.
    Psalms 7:14
    Behold, the wicked man conceives evil and is pregnant with mischief and gives birth to lies.
    Proverbs 22:8
    Whoever sows injustice will reap calamity, and the rod of his fury will fail.
    Galatians 6:7 - 8
    Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap.
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