>[!Properties]+ Resources >[Gospel Library](https://churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/ot/job/4?lang=eng) | [Citation Index](https://scriptures.byu.edu/#07604::c07604) | [Bible Hub](https://biblehub.com/job/4.htm) | [Inline JST](https://scripturetoolbox.com/html/ic/Job/4.html) | [Strong's](https://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/job/4/1/ss1/) >>[!AI]- AI Context >>Eliphaz the Temanite speaks to Job in the land of Uz, addressing Job directly in response to his previous laments, aiming to offer a perspective on suffering and divine justice. > >>[!AI]- AI Child Summary >>A man named Eliphaz reminds his friend Job that it's important to trust God, even when bad things happen, because doing good things usually brings good back to you. > >>[!AI]- AI Summary >>Eliphaz the Temanite responds to Job by pointing out that although Job has helped others in times of trouble, he is now struggling himself. Eliphaz argues that suffering is often a result of wrongdoing and reminds Job that no one is more just than God. He shares a vision that questions whether humans, who are fragile and temporary, can be more righteous than their Creator. > >#Gospel/Faith #Gospel/Justice #Gospel/Humility ###### 1 1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, ###### 2 2 If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking? ###### 3 3 Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands. ###### 4 4 Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees. ###### 5 5 But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled. ###### 6 6 Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways? ###### 7 7 Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off? ###### 8 8 Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same. ###### 9 9 By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed. ###### 10 10 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken. ###### 11 11 The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad. ###### 12 12 Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof. ###### 13 13 In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, ###### 14 14 Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. ###### 15 15 Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up: ###### 16 16 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, ###### 17 17 Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker? ###### 18 18 Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly: ###### 19 19 How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth? ###### 20 20 They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it. ###### 21 21 Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.