Job 4
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Lutheran reading notes
In Job chapter 4, the wisdom literature continues to explore suffering, divine justice, and faithfulness amid trial. Lutheran interpretation often emphasizes humanity’s limitations and the need to rely on God's grace and promises. The chapter highlights the contrast between human striving and the faithfulness of God.
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Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
Job 4:1 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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{If} we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking? {to...: Heb. a word} {withhold...: Heb. refrain from words?}
Job 4:2 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands.
Job 4:3 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.
Job 4:4 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.
Job 4:5 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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{Is} not {this} thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?
Job 4:6 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Remember, I pray thee, who {ever} perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?
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Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
Job 4:8 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed. {by the breath...: that is, by his anger}
Job 4:9 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
Job 4:10 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.
Job 4:11 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof. {secretly: Heb. by stealth}
Job 4:12 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men,
Job 4:13 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. {came...: Heb. met} {all: Heb. the multitude of}
Job 4:14 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up:
Job 4:15 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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...: or, I heard a still voice}
Job 4:16 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
Job 4:17 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly: {and his...: or, nor in his angels, in whom he put light}
Job 4:18 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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How much less {in} them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation {is} in the dust, {which} are crushed before the moth?
Job 4:19 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding {it}. {destroyed: Heb. beaten in pieces}
Job 4:20 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Doth not their excellency {which is} in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.
Job 4:21 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.