5 Job is reprehended of impatience,  7 and injustice, 17 and of the presumption of his own righteousness.

Then Eliphaz the Temanite, answered and said,

If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but [a]who can withhold himself from speaking?

Behold, thou hast taught many, and [b]hast strengthened the weary hands.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 4:2 Seeing this thine impatience.
  2. Job 4:3 Thou hast comforted others in their afflictions, and canst not now comfort thyself.

Eliphaz

Then Eliphaz the Temanite(A) replied:

“If someone ventures a word with you, will you be impatient?
    But who can keep from speaking?(B)
Think how you have instructed many,(C)
    how you have strengthened feeble hands.(D)

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Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,

If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking?

Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands.

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