Job 4:1
Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
2 “If one ventures a word with you, will you be wearied? Yet who can keep from speaking?
3 Surely you have instructed many, and have strengthened their feeble hands.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
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- Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
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- Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
- ASV
- Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
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- And Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
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- And Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:
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- Da tok Elifas fra Teman til orde og sa:
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- Elifas fra Teman svarte:
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- Da tok Elifas fra Teman til orde og sa:
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 6:1
Then Job replied:
Read in contextJob 8:1
Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
Read in contextJob 2:11
Now when Job’s three friends—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite—heard about all this adversity that had come upon him, each of them came from his home, and they met together to go and sympathize with Job and comfort him.
Read in contextJob 22:1
Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
Read in contextJob 15:1
Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
Read in contextJob 3:1–2
After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.
Read in contextJob 42:9
So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite went and did as the LORD had told them; and the LORD accepted Job’s request.
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