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Job 4:1¹Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered:Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 15:1 Job 2:11 Job 22:1 Job 3:1-2 Job 42:9 Job 6:1 Job 8:1

Job 4:2²“If someone should attempt a word with you, will you be impatient? But who can refrain from speaking?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 32:18-20 Acts 4:20 Jer 6:11 2 Cor 2:4-6 2 Cor 7:8-10 Jer 20:9

Job 4:3³Look, you have instructed many; you have strengthened feeble hands.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 35:3 Heb 12:12 Job 16:5 Luke 22:32 Prov 10:21 Deut 3:28 Eph 4:29 Luke 22:43 Ezek 13:22 Gen 18:19

Job 4:4⁴Your words have supported those who stumbled, and you have strengthened the knees that gave way.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Thess 5:14 Heb 12:12 Prov 12:18 Ps 145:14 2 Cor 2:7 2 Cor 7:6 Dan 5:6 Isa 35:3-4 Prov 16:23-24

Job 4:5⁵But now the same thing comes to you, and you are discouraged; it strikes you, and you are terrified.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 19:21 2 Cor 4:16 2 Cor 4:1 Heb 12:3 Heb 12:5 Job 1:11 Job 2:5 Job 3:25-26 Job 6:14 Prov 24:10

Job 4:6⁶Is not your piety your confidence, and your blameless ways your hope?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Prov 3:26 Prov 14:26 Job 1:1 Job 17:15 Job 23:11-12 Job 13:15 Job 16:17 1 Pet 1:13 2 Kgs 20:3 Job 29:12-17

Job 4:7⁷Call to mind now: Who, being innocent, ever perished? And where were upright people ever destroyed?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 37:25 2 Pet 2:9 Job 36:7 Acts 28:4 Job 8:20 Eccl 7:15 Eccl 9:1-2 Job 9:22-23

Job 4:8⁸Even as I have seen, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gal 6:7-8 Prov 22:8 Hos 8:7 2 Cor 9:6 Hos 10:12-13 Jer 4:18 Job 15:35 Ps 7:14-16

Job 4:9⁹By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they are consumed.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 15:30 2 Thess 2:8 Isa 11:4 Isa 30:33 Ps 18:15 Rev 2:16 Exod 15:10 Exod 15:8 Job 1:19 2 Kgs 19:7

Job 4:10¹⁰There is the roaring of the lion and the growling of the young lion, but the teeth of the young lions are broken.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 58:6 Prov 30:14 Ps 3:7 Ps 57:4 Job 29:17 Job 5:15

Job 4:11¹¹The mighty lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 34:10 2 Tim 4:17 Gen 49:9 Hos 11:10 Jer 4:7 Job 1:19 Job 27:14-15 Job 38:39 Job 8:3-4 Num 23:24

Job 4:12¹²“Now a word was stealthily brought to me, and my ear caught a whisper of it.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 26:14 1 Cor 13:12 Ps 62:11

Job 4:13¹³In the troubling thoughts of the dreams in the night when a deep sleep falls on men,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 33:14-16 Gen 2:21 Dan 10:9 Dan 2:19 Dan 2:28-29 Dan 4:5 Dan 8:18 Gen 15:12 Gen 20:3 Gen 28:12

Job 4:14¹⁴dread gripped me and trembling, which made all my bones shake.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 33:19 Rev 1:17 Dan 10:11 Hab 3:16 Isa 6:5 Job 7:14 Luke 1:12 Luke 1:29 Ps 119:120

Job 4:15¹⁵Then a breath of air passes by my face; it makes the hair of my flesh stand up.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Heb 1:7 Dan 5:6 Luke 24:37-39 Ps 104:4 Isa 13:8 Isa 21:3-4 Heb 1:14 Matt 14:26

Job 4:16¹⁶It stands still, but I cannot recognize its appearance; an image is before my eyes, and I hear a murmuring voice:Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Kgs 19:12

Job 4:17¹⁷‘Is a mortal man righteous before God? Or a man pure before his Creator?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 9:2 Job 25:4 Eccl 7:20 Ps 143:2 Jer 17:9 Rom 11:33 Jer 12:1 Job 15:14 Job 35:10 Job 35:2

Job 4:18¹⁸If God puts no trust in his servants and attributes folly to his angels,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Pet 2:4 Job 25:5-6 Jude 1:6 Job 15:15-16 Ps 104:4 Isa 6:2-3 Ps 103:20-21

Job 4:19¹⁹how much more to those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 10:9 Gen 2:7 Gen 3:19 Job 33:6 2 Cor 4:7 2 Cor 5:1 Gen 18:27 Job 13:12 Job 13:28 Ps 39:11

Job 4:20²⁰They are destroyed between morning and evening; they perish forever without anyone regarding it.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 20:7 2 Chr 15:6 2 Chr 21:20 Isa 38:12-13 Job 14:14 Job 14:2 Job 14:20 Job 16:22 Job 18:17 Prov 10:7

Job 4:21²¹Is not their excess wealth taken away from them? They die, yet without attaining wisdom.’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 36:12 Job 8:22 Luke 16:22-23 Ps 39:11 Isa 14:16 Isa 2:22 Jas 1:11 Job 18:21 Luke 12:20 Ps 146:3-4

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