Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
And Eliphaz the Temanite made answer and said,
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered - For seven days this person and his two friends had observed a profound silence, being awed and confounded at the sight of Job's unprecedented affliction. Having now sufficiently contemplated his afflicted state, and heard his bitter complaint, forgetting that he came as a comforter, and not as a reprover, he loses the feeling of the friend in the haughtiness of the censor, endeavoring to strip him of his only consolation, - the testimony of his conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not in fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, he had his conversation among men, - by insinuating that if his ways had been upright, he would not have been abandoned to such distress and affliction; and if his heart possessed that righteousness of which he boasted, he would not have been so suddenly cast down by adversity.
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered - See the notes at Job 2:11.