Bible Gateway passage: Job 4:1-9, Job 8:1-7, Job 11:1-6 - New International Version (2024)

Eliphaz

4Then Eliphaz the Temanite^(A) replied:

²“If someone ventures a word with you, will you be impatient?
But who can keep from speaking?^(B)
3Think how you have instructed many,^(C)
how you have strengthened feeble hands.^(D)
4Your words have supported those who stumbled;^(E)
you have strengthened faltering knees.^(F)
5But now trouble comes to you, and you are discouraged;^(G)
it strikes^(H) you, and you are dismayed.^(I)
6Should not your piety be your confidence^(J)
and your blameless^(K) ways your hope?

⁷“Consider now: Who, being innocent, has ever perished?^(L)
Where were the upright ever destroyed?^(M)
8As I have observed,^(N) those who plow evil^(O)
and those who sow trouble reap it.^(P)
9At the breath of God^(Q) they perish;
at the blast of his anger they are no more.^(R)

Cross references

1. Job 4:1 : S Ge 36:11; Job 15:1; 22:1
2. Job 4:2 : Job 32:20; Jer 4:19; 20:9
3. Job 4:3 : Dt 32:2; Job 29:23; Hos 6:3
4. Job 4:3 : Job 26:2; Ps 71:9; Isa 13:7; 35:3; Zep 3:16; Heb 12:12
5. Job 4:4 : Job 16:5; 29:16, 25; Isa 1:17
6. Job 4:4 : Job 29:11, 15; Isa 35:3; Jer 31:8; Heb 12:12
7. Job 4:5 : S Jos 1:9
8. Job 4:5 : Ru 1:13; Job 1:11; 19:21; 30:21; Ps 38:2; Isa 53:4
9. Job 4:5 : Job 6:14; Pr 24:10
10. Job 4:6 : 2Ki 18:19; Ps 27:3; 71:5; Pr 3:26
11. Job 4:6 : S Ge 6:9
12. Job 4:7 : Job 5:11; 36:7; Ps 41:12; 2Pe 2:9
13. Job 4:7 : Job 8:20; Ps 37:25; 91:9-10; Pr 12:21; 19:23
14. Job 4:8 : Job 5:3; 15:17
15. Job 4:8 : Jdg 14:18; Job 5:6; 15:35; Ps 7:14; Isa 59:4
16. Job 4:8 : Ps 7:15; 9:15; Pr 11:18; 22:8; Isa 17:11; Hos 8:7; 10:13; Gal 6:7-8
17. Job 4:9 : S Ex 15:10; S Job 41:21; 2Th 2:8
18. Job 4:9 : S Lev 26:38; Job 40:13; Isa 25:7

Bildad

8Then Bildad the Shuhite^(A) replied:

²“How long will you say such things?^(B)
Your words are a blustering wind.^(C)
3Does God pervert justice?^(D)
Does the Almighty pervert what is right?^(E)
4When your children sinned against him,
he gave them over to the penalty of their sin.^(F)
5But if you will seek God earnestly
and plead^(G) with the Almighty,^(H)
6if you are pure and upright,
even now he will rouse himself on your behalf^(I)
and restore you to your prosperous state.^(J)
7Your beginnings will seem humble,
so prosperous^(K) will your future be.^(L)

Cross references

1. Job 8:1 : S Ge 25:2; Job 18:1; 25:1
2. Job 8:2 : Job 11:2; 18:2
3. Job 8:2 : S 2Ch 36:16; S Job 6:26
4. Job 8:3 : S Job 4:17; 34:12; Isa 29:15; Ro 3:5
5. Job 8:3 : S Ge 18:25; S Jer 12:1
6. Job 8:4 : Job 1:19
7. Job 8:5 : Job 9:15
8. Job 8:5 : S Job 5:8, 27
9. Job 8:6 : S Job 5:15; 22:27; 33:26; 34:28; Isa 58:9; 65:24
10. Job 8:6 : S Job 5:24
11. Job 8:7 : Job 21:13; 22:21; 36:11; Ps 25:13
12. Job 8:7 : S Job 1:10; Jer 29:11; 31:17

Zophar

11Then Zophar the Naamathite^(A) replied:

²“Are all these words to go unanswered?^(B)
Is this talker to be vindicated?^(C)
3Will your idle talk^(D) reduce others to silence?
Will no one rebuke you when you mock?^(E)
4You say to God, ‘My beliefs are flawless^(F)
and I am pure^(G) in your sight.’
⁵Oh, how I wish that God would speak,^(H)
that he would open his lips against you
⁶and disclose to you the secrets of wisdom,^(I)
for true wisdom has two sides.
Know this: God has even forgotten some of your sin.^(J)

Cross references

1. Job 11:1 : S Job 2:11
2. Job 11:2 : S Job 8:2; S 16:3
3. Job 11:2 : S Ge 41:6; S Job 6:29
4. Job 11:3 : Eph 4:29; 5:4
5. Job 11:3 : Job 12:4; 16:10; 17:2; 21:3; 30:1; Ps 1:1
6. Job 11:4 : Job 9:21
7. Job 11:4 : S Job 10:7
8. Job 11:5 : Ex 20:19; Job 23:5; 32:13; 38:1
9. Job 11:6 : S Job 9:4; 1Co 2:10
10. Job 11:6 : S Ezr 9:13; S Job 15:5