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Job Chapter 4

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Job

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In this chapter the Lord tells Job that his friends are not his real enemies and that God is the true judge. He also warns that the wicked will be punished and that God’s ways are beyond human understanding.

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(1) Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
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Job 2:11Job 15:1Job 22:1Job 42:9Job 3:1Job 3:2Job 6:1Job 8:1

(2) If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking?
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II Corinthians 2:4II Corinthians 2:5II Corinthians 2:6II Corinthians 7:8II Corinthians 7:9II Corinthians 7:10Job 32:18Job 32:19Job 32:20Jeremiah 6:11Jeremiah 20:9Acts 4:20

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II Kings 8:12Exodus 15:26

(3) Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands.
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Genesis 18:19Proverbs 10:21Proverbs 15:7Proverbs 16:21Isaiah 50:4Ephesians 4:29Colossians 4:6Job 16:5Deuteronomy 3:28Ezra 6:22Isaiah 35:3Ezekiel 13:22

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I Corinthians 9:22

(4) Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.
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Psalms 145:14Proverbs 12:18Proverbs 16:23Proverbs 16:24II Corinthians 2:7II Corinthians 7:6I Thessalonians 5:14Isaiah 35:3Isaiah 35:4Daniel 5:6Hebrews 12:12

(5) But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.
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Job 3:25Job 3:26Proverbs 24:10II Corinthians 4:1II Corinthians 4:16Hebrews 12:3Hebrews 12:5Job 1:11Job 2:5Job 19:21

(6) Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?
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Job 1:1Job 1:9Job 1:10II Kings 20:3Job 13:15Proverbs 3:26Proverbs 14:26Job 17:15I Peter 1:13I Peter 1:17Job 1:8Job 16:17

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Romans 8:24I Corinthians 9:10

(7) Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?
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Job 9:22Job 9:23Psalms 37:25Ecclesiastes 7:15Ecclesiastes 9:1Ecclesiastes 9:2Acts 28:4II Peter 2:9

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Matthew 10:41Leviticus 26:42

(8) Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
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Psalms 7:14Psalms 7:15Psalms 7:16Proverbs 22:8Jeremiah 4:18Hosea 8:7Hosea 10:12Hosea 10:13II Corinthians 9:6Galatians 6:7Galatians 6:8

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Jeremiah 44:9Ezekiel 18:20

(9) By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.
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Exodus 15:8Exodus 15:10II Kings 19:7Psalms 18:15Job 1:19Job 15:30Isaiah 11:4Isaiah 30:33II Thessalonians 2:8Revelation 2:16

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II Samuel 22:16Psalms 18:15

(10) The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
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Job 29:17Psalms 3:7Psalms 57:4Psalms 58:6Proverbs 30:14

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Nahum 2:11Joel 1:6Isaiah 31:4Numbers 23:24Psalms 17:12Psalms 91:13

(11) The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.
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Job 38:39Genesis 49:9Numbers 23:24Numbers 24:9Psalms 7:2Jeremiah 4:7Hosea 11:10II Timothy 4:17Psalms 34:10Job 1:19Job 8:3Job 8:4

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Genesis 49:9Job 28:8Nahum 2:11Numbers 23:24Judges 5:30Psalms 17:12

(12) Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof.
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Psalms 62:11I Corinthians 13:12

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Proverbs 6:10Proverbs 24:33

(13) In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men,
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Job 33:14Job 33:15Job 33:16Genesis 20:3Genesis 28:12Genesis 31:24Genesis 46:2Numbers 12:6Numbers 22:19Numbers 22:20Daniel 2:19Daniel 2:28

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Job 33:15I Thessalonians 5:7Acts 20:9

(14) Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.
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Job 7:14Psalms 119:120Isaiah 6:5Daniel 10:11Habakkuk 3:16Luke 1:12Luke 1:29Revelation 1:17Job 33:19

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Jeremiah 8:1II Samuel 21:13II Kings 23:18

(15) Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up:
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Psalms 104:4Matthew 14:26Luke 24:37Luke 24:38Luke 24:39Hebrews 1:7Hebrews 1:14Isaiah 13:8Isaiah 21:3Isaiah 21:4Daniel 5:6

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I Samuel 9:4Judges 11:29II Samuel 15:23

(16) It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying,
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I Kings 19:12

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Daniel 2:31Leviticus 26:1Revelation 13:15

(17) Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
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Job 8:3Job 9:2Job 35:2Job 40:8Genesis 18:25Psalms 143:2Psalms 145:17Ecclesiastes 7:20Jeremiah 12:1Romans 2:5Romans 3:4Romans 3:5

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Leviticus 19:36Ezekiel 45:10Titus 1:15

(18) Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly:
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Job 15:15Job 15:16Job 25:5Job 25:6Psalms 103:20Psalms 103:21Psalms 104:4Isaiah 6:2Isaiah 6:3II Peter 2:4Jude 1:6

(19) How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
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Job 10:9Job 13:12Job 33:6Genesis 2:7Genesis 3:19Genesis 18:27Ecclesiastes 12:7II Corinthians 4:7II Corinthians 5:1Job 13:28Job 14:2Psalms 39:11

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Jeremiah 19:13I Samuel 12:3Philippians 3:19Exodus 10:6

(20) They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.
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II Chronicles 15:6Isaiah 38:12Isaiah 38:13Job 14:14Job 16:22Psalms 39:13Psalms 92:7Job 18:17Job 20:7II Chronicles 21:20Psalms 37:36Proverbs 10:7

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II Chronicles 13:11

(21) Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.
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Psalms 39:5Psalms 39:11Psalms 49:14Psalms 146:3Psalms 146:4Isaiah 14:16Luke 16:22Luke 16:23James 1:11Job 36:12Psalms 49:20Isaiah 2:22

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II Samuel 14:14II Kings 7:4II Chronicles 25:4Ezekiel 3:20Romans 14:8Ecclesiastes 7:12

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