Bible Language Cross References for the verse Job 4:0 in NET
- 1 There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. And that man was pure and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil.
- 2 Seven sons and three daughters were born to him.
- 3 His possessions included 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, and 500 female donkeys; in addition he had a very great household. Thus he was the greatest of all the people in the east.
- 4 Now his sons used to go and hold a feast in the house of each one in turn, and they would send and invite their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.
- 5 When the days of their feasting were finished, Job would send for them and sanctify them; he would get up early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job thought, "Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts." This was Job's customary practice.
- 6 Now the day came when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD� and Satan also arrived among them.
- 7 The LORD said to Satan, "Where have you come from?" And Satan answered the LORD, "From roving about on the earth, and from walking back and forth across it."
- 8 So the LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one like him on the earth, a pure and upright man, one who fears God and turns away from evil."
- 9 Then Satan answered the LORD, "Is it for nothing that Job fears God?
- 10 Have you not made a hedge around him and his household and all that he has on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his livestock have increased in the land.
- 11 But extend your hand and strike everything he has, and he will no doubt curse you to your face!"
- 12 So the LORD said to Satan, "All right then, everything he has is in your power. Only do not extend your hand against the man himself!" So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD.
- 13 Now the day came when Job's sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house,
- 14 and a messenger came to Job, saying, "The oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing beside them,
- 15 and the Sabeans swooped down and carried them all away, and they killed the servants with the sword! And I� only I alone� escaped to tell you!"
- 16 While this one was still speaking, another messenger arrived and said, "The fire of God has fallen from heaven and has burned up the sheep and the servants� it has consumed them! And I� only I alone� escaped to tell you!"
- 17 While this one was still speaking another messenger arrived and said, "The Chaldeans formed three bands and made a raid on the camels and carried them all away, and they killed the servants with the sword! And I� only I alone� escaped to tell you!"
- 18 While this one was still speaking another messenger arrived and said, "Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house,
- 19 and suddenly a great wind swept across the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young people, and they died! And I� only I alone� escaped to tell you!"
- 20 Then Job got up and tore his robe. He shaved his head, and then he threw himself down with his face to the ground.
- 21 He said, "Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I will return there. The LORD gives, and the LORD takes away. May the name of the LORD be blessed!"
- 22 In all this Job did not sin, nor did he charge God with moral impropriety.
- 1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered:
- 2 "Does a wise man answer with blustery knowledge, or fill his belly with the east wind?
- 3 Does he argue with useless talk, with words that have no value in them?
- 4 But you even break off piety, and hinder meditation before God.
- 5 Your sin inspires your mouth; you choose the language of the crafty.
- 6 Your own mouth condemns you, not I; your own lips testify against you.
- 7 "Were you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills?
- 8 Do you listen in on God's secret council? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?
- 9 What do you know that we don't know? What do you understand that we don't understand?
- 10 The gray-haired and the aged are on our side, men far older than your father.
- 11 Are God's consolations too trivial for you; or a word spoken in gentleness to you?
- 12 Why has your heart carried you away, and why do your eyes flash,
- 13 when you turn your rage against God and allow such words to escape from your mouth?
- 14 What is man that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?
- 15 If God places no trust in his holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in his eyes,
- 16 how much less man, who is abominable and corrupt, who drinks in evil like water!
- 17 "I will explain to you; listen to me, and what I have seen, I will declare,
- 18 what wise men declare, hiding nothing, from the tradition of their ancestors,
- 19 to whom alone the land was given when no foreigner passed among them.
- 20 All his days the wicked man suffers torment, throughout the number of the years that are stored up for the tyrant.
- 21 Terrifying sounds fill his ears; in a time of peace marauders attack him.
- 22 He does not expect to escape from darkness; he is marked for the sword;
- 23 he wanders about� food for vultures; he knows that the day of darkness is at hand.
- 24 Distress and anguish terrify him; they prevail against him like a king ready to launch an attack,
- 25 for he stretches out his hand against God, and vaunts himself against the Almighty,
- 26 defiantly charging against him with a thick, strong shield!
- 27 Because he covered his face with fat, and made his hips bulge with fat,
- 28 he lived in ruined towns and in houses where no one lives, where they are ready to crumble into heaps.
- 29 He will not grow rich, and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread over the land.
- 30 He will not escape the darkness; a flame will wither his shoots and he will depart by the breath of God's mouth.
- 31 Let him not trust in what is worthless, deceiving himself; for worthlessness will be his reward.
- 32 Before his time he will be paid in full, and his branches will not flourish.
- 33 Like a vine he will let his sour grapes fall, and like an olive tree he will shed his blossoms.
- 34 For the company of the godless is barren, and fire consumes the tents of those who accept bribes.
- 35 They conceive trouble and bring forth evil; their belly prepares deception."