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1Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,Cross-references: Job 2:11 · Job 3:1 · Job 6:1 · Job 8:1 · Job 15:1 · Job 22:1 · +1 more

2“If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?Cross-references: Job 32:18 · Jer 6:11 · Jer 20:9 · Acts 4:20 · 2Cor 2:4 · 2Cor 7:8

3Behold, you have instructed many, you have strengthened the weak hands.Cross-references: Gen 18:19 · Deut 3:28 · Ezra 6:22 · Job 16:5 · Prov 10:21 · Prov 15:7 · +9 more

4Your words have supported him who was falling, you have made the feeble knees firm.Cross-references: Ps 145:14 · Prov 12:18 · Prov 16:23 · Isa 35:3 · Dan 5:6 · 2Cor 2:7 · +3 more

5But now it has come to you, and you faint. It touches you, and you are troubled.Cross-references: Job 1:11 · Job 2:5 · Job 3:25 · Job 6:14 · Job 19:21 · Prov 24:10 · +4 more

6Isn’t your piety your confidence? Isn’t the integrity of your ways your hope?Cross-references: 2Ki 20:3 · Job 1:1 · Job 1:8 · Job 13:15 · Job 16:17 · Job 17:15 · +8 more

7“Remember, now, who ever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?Cross-references: Job 8:20 · Job 9:22 · Job 36:7 · Ps 37:25 · Eccl 7:15 · Eccl 9:1 · +2 more

8According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble, reap the same.Cross-references: Job 15:35 · Ps 7:14 · Prov 22:8 · Jer 4:18 · Hos 8:7 · Hos 10:12 · +2 more

9By the breath of God they perish. By the blast of his anger are they consumed.Cross-references: Ex 15:8 · Ex 15:10 · 2Ki 19:7 · Job 1:19 · Job 15:30 · Job 40:13 · +5 more

10The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions, are broken.Cross-references: Job 5:15 · Job 29:17 · Ps 3:7 · Ps 57:4 · Ps 58:6 · Prov 30:14

11The old lion perishes for lack of prey. The cubs of the lioness are scattered abroad.Cross-references: Gen 49:9 · Num 23:24 · Num 24:9 · Job 1:19 · Job 8:3 · Job 27:14 · +6 more

12“Now a thing was secretly brought to me. My ear received a whisper of it.Cross-references: Job 26:14 · Ps 62:11 · 1Cor 13:12

13In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,Cross-references: Gen 2:21 · Gen 15:12 · Gen 20:3 · Gen 28:12 · Gen 31:24 · Gen 46:2 · +8 more

14fear came on me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake.Cross-references: Job 7:14 · Job 33:19 · Ps 119:120 · Isa 6:5 · Dan 10:11 · Hab 3:16 · +3 more

15Then a spirit passed before my face. The hair of my flesh stood up.Cross-references: Ps 104:4 · Isa 13:8 · Isa 21:3 · Dan 5:6 · Matt 14:26 · Luke 24:37 · +2 more

16It stood still, but I couldn’t discern its appearance. A form was before my eyes. Silence, then I heard a voice, saying,Cross-references: 1Ki 19:12

17‘Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?Cross-references: Gen 18:25 · Job 8:3 · Job 9:2 · Job 9:30 · Job 14:4 · Job 15:14 · +15 more

18Behold, he puts no trust in his servants. He charges his angels with error.Cross-references: Job 15:15 · Job 25:5 · Ps 103:20 · Ps 104:4 · Isa 6:2 · 2Pet 2:4 · +1 more

19How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!Cross-references: Gen 2:7 · Gen 3:19 · Gen 18:27 · Job 10:9 · Job 13:12 · Job 13:28 · +11 more

20Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.Cross-references: 2Chr 15:6 · 2Chr 21:20 · Job 14:2 · Job 14:14 · Job 14:20 · Job 16:22 · +8 more

21Isn’t their tent cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.’Cross-references: Job 8:22 · Job 18:21 · Job 36:12 · Ps 39:5 · Ps 39:11 · Ps 49:14 · +7 more

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