4:1 提幔人以利法回答說：
4:2 人若想與你說話，你就厭煩嗎？但誰能忍住不說呢？
4:3 你素來教導許多的人，又堅固軟弱的手。
4:4 你的言語曾扶助那將要跌倒的人；你又使軟弱的膝穩固。
4:5 但現在禍患臨到你，你就昏迷，挨近你，你便驚惶。
4:6 你的倚靠不是在你敬畏上帝嗎？你的盼望不是在你行事純正嗎？
4:7 請你追想：無辜的人有誰滅亡？正直的人在何處剪除？
4:8 按我所見，耕罪孽、種毒害的人都照樣收割。
4:9 上帝一出氣，他們就滅亡；上帝一發怒，他們就消沒。
4:10 獅子的吼叫和猛獅的聲音盡都止息；少壯獅子的牙齒也都敲掉。
4:11 老獅子因絕食而死；母獅之子也都離散。
4:12 我暗暗地得了默示；我耳朵也聽其細微的聲音。
4:13 在思念夜中、異象之間，世人沉睡的時候，
4:14 恐懼、戰兢臨到我身，使我百骨打戰。
4:15 有靈從我面前經過，我身上的毫毛直立。
4:16 那靈停住，我卻不能辨其形狀；有影像在我眼前。我在靜默中聽見有聲音說：
4:17 必死的人豈能比上帝公義嗎？人豈能比造他的主潔淨嗎？
4:18 主不信靠他的臣僕，並且指他的使者為愚昧；
4:19 何況那住在土房、根基在塵土裡、被蠹蟲所毀壞的人呢？
4:20 早晚之間，就被毀滅，永歸無有，無人理會。
4:21 他帳棚的繩索豈不從中抽出來呢？他死，且是無智慧而死。
Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
2 “If
someone ventures a word with you, will you be impatient?
But who can keep from speaking?
3 Think how you have instructed many,
how you have strengthened feeble hands.
4 Your words have supported those who stumbled;
you have strengthened faltering knees.
5 But now trouble comes to you, and you are discouraged;
it strikes you, and you are dismayed.
6 Should not your piety be your confidence
and your blameless ways your hope?
7 “Consider
now: Who, being innocent, has ever perished?
Where were the upright ever destroyed?
8 As I have observed, those who plow evil
and those who sow trouble reap it.
9 At the breath of God they perish;
at the blast of his anger they are no more.
10 The lions may roar and growl,
yet the teeth of the great lions are broken.
11 The lion perishes for lack of prey,
and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
12 “A
word was secretly brought to me,
my ears caught a whisper of it.
13 Amid disquieting dreams in the night,
when deep sleep falls on people,
14 fear and trembling seized me
and made all my bones shake.
15 A spirit glided past my face,
and the hair on my body stood on end.
16 It stopped,
but I could not tell what it was.
A form stood before my eyes,
and I heard a hushed voice:
17 ‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God?
Can even a strong man be more pure than his Maker?
18 If God places no trust in his servants,
if he charges his angels with error,
19 how much more those who live in houses of clay,
whose foundations are in the dust,
who are crushed more readily than a moth!
20 Between dawn and dusk they are broken to pieces;
unnoticed, they perish forever.
21 Are not the cords of their tent pulled up,
so that they die without wisdom?’
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從提幔人以利法回應約伯的話，會感覺他是第一個在約伯之後發言的人，實在不會很奇怪，因為他是一個心直口快，沒有什麼思考的人，就是將心中的感覺直接說出的人，沒有甚麼深思熟慮，正如一開頭所說的：「人若想與你說話，你就厭煩嗎？但誰能忍住不說呢？」
他忍不住說出來，就是要告訴約伯，他今天落到這種境地，是因為自己的惡行所造成的，是上帝的報應！因為他的觀念是：「惡有惡報，善有善報，因為上帝是公平正義的！」
他的想法是：平常約伯的表現只是外表的而已，內在和每個人依樣都是罪惡的，所以今天不是上帝不公平，是因為約伯本身就是不義的人，毫無聖潔可言！也因此，面對今日的景況約伯要好好認罪並悔改！
所以，在提幔人以利法的觀念中，沒有義人受苦，而約伯根本不是義人！只是他把詞句說得漂亮而已，不會像一般「「惡有惡報，善有善報」說得太直接罷了！其實在教會中，這類人還佔大多數呢！不僅如此，這樣的人還有幾分的自義呢！
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