Job 4:1
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
2 If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking?
3 Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak 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
But Job answered and said,
Read in contextJob 8:1
Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
Read in contextJob 2:11
Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.
Read in contextJob 22:1
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
Read in contextJob 15:1
Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
Read in contextJob 3:1–2
After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
Read in contextJob 42:9
So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the LORD commanded them: the LORD also accepted Job.
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