Job 4:1

CONTENTS

This chapter opens with the controversy between Job and his friends, which runs through the whole book, until, at the close of it, GOD settles the dispute. Eliphaz begins, and his expostulation with Job is pursued through all this chapter.

Job 4:1

(1) В¶ Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,

This Eliphaz was of Teman, the seed of Esau. Let the Reader remark this in the opening of the controversy, it will throw some light upon the subject. We find the enemy, Satan, had given over. His charge Job had refuted. Satan had said Job would prove himself a hypocrite, by cursing GOD. This had proved a lie. Now Eliphaz comes forward to the charge.