Job 4:14-15

[clark thompson]

Job 4:14-15 King James Version (KJV)

14 Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.

15 Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up:



Job 4:14-15 Lexham English Bible (LEB)
14 dread met me, and trembling,
and it made many of my bones shake.15 And a spirit glided before my face;
the hair of my flesh bristled.

Lexham English Bible (LEB) 2012 by Logos Bible Software. Lexham is a registered trademark of Logos Bible Software



These are my thoughts, please share yours.


14 Fear is something that can cause bad side effects, it can make people wrecks but it also can keep us safe from doing something that leads us to harm. Fear in a way of respect is good, to have this respect for the Lord is wise but to have a fear where you are afraid to go to the Lord is not. The Lord can handle our fears; He is bigger than anything we fear.


15 Fear can get to the point where people are closed off. Fear can cause people to be alone. Fear affects how we act and who we are. We should give the Lord our fears.

 

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' ... Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.
Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up: ... '
(Job 4:14,15)

'Great fear did come on me, and trembling;
it made my very bones to stand in awe!
And o'er my face there then did pass a breath,
Which made my very hair to stand on end.'
(metrical version)

Hi Clark,

What you say concerning fear is true. Here, Eliphaz is recounting a vision of the night which caused him to be afraid.

Because God speaks as He does later, in Job 42:7-9, concerning Eliphaz, Bildad and Zophar, Job's friends: (' ...ye have not spoken of me [the thing that is] right, as my servant Job hath'). I am nervous about taking heed to what they have said: yet the words of Eliphaz is quoted by Paul in 1 Cor. 3:19, and in Heb. 12:5 (see Job 5:13 & 17); so what these three say cannot be dismissed, can it? Perhaps it is not so much what they say, as the application they make of it to Job, for they assume that he must have brought the catastrophic happenings upon himself, by some wrongdoing. Yet we, who have the benefit of the written Word to read, know that Job had done only what was right in God's eyes, but that God allowed Satan to buffet him, and to prove him, for reasons of His own.

In Christ Jesus
Chris

PS. I have used larger print, because I find the other hard to read sometimes.

 

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Hello again, Clark,

There are modern day equivalents of Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar , who are trying to make men 'good', by reasoning and persuasion, based on 'experience', 'tradition' and 'human merit'. But they only 'darken counsel by words without knowledge.' (Job 38:2). We need more, like Elihu, who shall speak 'on God's behalf' - Job 36:2: who will expose the emptiness of this false 'gospel' which has 'a form of godliness, but denies the power thereof'.(2 Tim. 3:5)

Thank you
In Christ Jesus
Chris

 

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Yes, it's me again,

Looking at a booklet I have on the book of Job, I read, concerning the words of Eliphaz, Zophar, and Bildad, that their reasonings were wrong in their conclusions, and false in their logic. They argued that what they had seen and observed in their own respective spheres of life, was true 'universally'.

They may speak truth regarding the 'works' of God, and of what they had seen in the case of individuals; but it did not follow that they could gather from these few cases what was the 'law' which regulated the 'ways' and dealings of God with mankind generally.

Are we not all inclined to do this? What a lesson this is to all of us, isn't it? Not to make judgments concerning the ways of God, by our own personal experience, or the experiences we observe in others. To let God's Word itself be the arbiter in all matters concerning Him.

Thank you again, Clark,
In Christ Jesus
Chris

Praise God!