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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge: Job 4

Chapter 4

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,

Eliphaz

2:11 15:1 22:1 42:9

answered

3:1,2 6:1 8:1

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

to commune

Heb. a word. wilt thou.

2 Corinthians 2:4-6 7:8-10

withhold himself from speaking

Heb. refrain from words.

32:18-20 Jeremiah 6:11 20:9 Acts 4:20

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

Behold

Genesis 18:19 Proverbs 10:21 15:7 16:21 Isaiah 50:4 Ephesians 4:29 Colossians 4:6

and thou hast

16:5 Deuteronomy 3:28 Ezra 6:22 Isaiah 35:3 Ezekiel 13:22 Luke 22:32,43

Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.

upholden

Psalms 145:14 Proverbs 12:18 16:23,24 2 Corinthians 2:7 7:6 1 Thessalonians 5:14

feeble knees

Heb. bowing knees.

Isaiah 35:3,4 Daniel 5:6 Hebrews 12:12

But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.

it is come

3:25,26

thou faintest

Proverbs 24:10 2 Corinthians 4:1,16 Hebrews 12:3,5

it toucheth

1:11 2:5 19:21

Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?

thy fear

1:1,9,10 2 Kings 20:3

thy confidence

13:15 Proverbs 3:26 14:26

thy hope

17:15 1 Peter 1:13,17

the uprightness

1:8 16:17 23:11,12 27:5,6 29:12-17 31:1-40

Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?

who ever

9:22,23 Psalms 37:25 Ecclesiastes 7:15 9:1,2 Acts 28:4 2 Peter 2:9

Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.

they that plow

Psalms 7:14-16 Proverbs 22:8 Jeremiah 4:18 Hosea 8:7 10:12,13 2 Corinthians 9:6 Galatians 6:7,8

By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.

the blast

Exodus 15:8,10 2 Kings 19:7 Psalms 18:15

by the breath of his nostrils

that is, by his anger.

1:19 15:30 Isaiah 11:4 30:33 2 Thessalonians 2:8 Revelation 2:16

The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.

the teeth

29:17 Psalms 3:7 57:4 58:6 Proverbs 30:14

The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.

old lion

38:39 Genesis 49:9 Numbers 23:24 24:9 Psalms 7:2 Jeremiah 4:7 Hosea 11:10 2 Timothy 4:17

perisheth

Psalms 34:10

the stout

1:19 8:3,4 27:14,15

Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof.

a thing

Psalms 62:11

secretly

Heb. by stealth. a little.

1 Corinthians 13:12

In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men,

thoughts

33:14-16 Genesis 20:3 28:12 31:24 46:2 Numbers 12:6 22:19,20 Daniel 2:19,28,29 4:5

deep sleep

Genesis 2:21 15:12 Daniel 8:18 10:9

Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.

Fear

7:14 Psalms 119:120 Isaiah 6:5 Daniel 10:11 Habakkuk 3:16 Luke 1:12,29 Revelation 1:17

came upon

Heb. met. all my bones. Heb. the multitude of my bones.

33:19

Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up:

a spirit

Psalms 104:4 Matthew 14:26 Luke 24:37-39 Hebrews 1:7,14

the hair

Isaiah 13:8 21:3,4 Daniel 5:6

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,

there, etc

or, I heard a still voice.

1 Kings 19:12

Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?

Shall mortal

8:3 9:2 35:2 40:8 Genesis 18:25 Psalms 143:2 145:17 Ecclesiastes 7:20 Jeremiah 12:1 Romans 2:5 3:4-7 9:20 11:33

shall a man

9:30,31 14:4 15:14 25:4 Jeremiah 17:9 Mark 7:20-23 Revelation 4:8

Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly:

he put

15:15,16 25:5,6 Psalms 103:20,21 104:4 Isaiah 6:2,3

and his angels he charged with folly

or, nor in his angels in whom he put light.

2 Peter 2:4 Jude 1:6

How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?

dwell

10:9 13:12 33:6 Genesis 2:7 3:19 18:27 Ecclesiastes 12:7 2 Corinthians 4:7 5:1

crushed

13:28 14:2 Psalms 39:11 90:5-7 103:15,16 146:4 1 Peter 1:24

They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.

destroyed

Heb. beaten in pieces.

2 Chronicles 15:6 *marg

from morning

Isaiah 38:12,13

they perish

14:14 16:22 Psalms 39:13 92:7

without

18:17 20:7 2 Chronicles 21:20 Psalms 37:36 Proverbs 10:7

Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.

excellency

Psalms 39:5,11 49:14 146:3,4 Isaiah 14:16 Luke 16:22,23 James 1:11

die

36:12 Psalms 49:20 Isaiah 2:22 Luke 12:20