Job:4

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* Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered , and sayde , * [If ] we assay to commune with thee , wilt thou be grieved ? but (note :)Seeing your impatience .(:note ) who can withhold himself from speaking ? * Behold , thou hast instructed many , and thou (note :)You have comforted others in their afflictions but you cannot now comfort yourself .(:note ) hast strengthened the weak hands . * Thy wordes haue confirmed him that was falling , and thou hast strengthened the weake knees . * But now it is come vpon thee , and thou art grieued : it toucheth thee , and thou art troubled . * [Is ] not [this ] thy (note :)He concludes that Job was a hypocrite and had no true fear or trust in God .(:note ) fear , thy confidence , thy hope , and the uprightness of thy ways ? * Remember , I pray thee , who [ever ] perished , being (note :)He concludes that Job was reproved seeing that God handles him so extremely , which is the argument that the carnal men make against the children of God .(:note ) innocent ? or where were the righteous cut off ? * Even as I have seen , they that (note :)They who do evil cannot but receive evil .(:note ) plow iniquity , and sow wickedness , reap the same . * By the (note :)He shows that God needs no great preparation to destroy his enemies : for he can do it with the blast of his mouth .(:note ) blast of God they perish , and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed . * The roaring of the (note :)Though men according to their office do not punish tyrants (whom for their cruelty he compares to lions , and their children to their whelps ) yet God is able and his justice will punish them .(:note ) lion , and the voice of the fierce lion , and the teeth of the young lions , are broken . * The Lyon perisheth for lacke of pray , and the Lyons whelpes are scattered abroade . * Now a thing was (note :)A thing I did not know before was declared to me by vision , that is that whoever thinks himself just will be found a sinner when he comes before God .(:note ) secretly brought to me , and mine ear received a little thereof . * In the thoughtes of ye visions of the night , when sleepe falleth on men , * Fear came upon me , and trembling , which made all my bones (note :)In these visions which God shows to his creatures , there is always a certain fear joined , that the authority of it might be had in greater reverence .(:note ) to shake . * And the wind passed before me , and made the heares of my flesh to stande vp . * It stood still , but I could not discern the form thereof : an image [was ] before mine eyes , [there was ] (note :)When all things were quiet or when the fear was relieved as God appeared to Elijah , ( 1Ki_19:12 ).(:note ) silence , and I heard a voice , [saying ], * Shall mortal man be more (note :)He proves that if God punished the innocent , the creature would be more just than the creator , which was blasphemy .(:note ) just than God ? shall a man be more pure than his maker ? * Behold , he put no trust in his servants ; and his (note :)If God finds imperfection in his angels when they are not maintained by his power , how much more shall he lay folly to man 's charge when he would justify himself against God ?(:note ) angels he charged with folly : * How much less [in ] them that dwell in houses of (note :)That is , in this mortal body , subject to corruption , as in ( 2Co_5:1 ).(:note ) clay , whose foundation [is ] in the dust , [which ] are crushed before the moth ? * They are destroyed from (note :)They see death continually before their eyes and daily approaching them .(:note ) morning to evening : they perish for ever No man for all this considers it . without any regarding [it ]. * Doth not their excellency [which is ] in them go away ? they die , even without (note :)That is , before any of them were so wise , as to think of death .(:note ) wisdom .

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