English Standard Version
Job 4:3
3Behold, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened the weak hands.
Job 4:3 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands.
- New International Version (NIV)Think how you have instructed many, how you have strengthened feeble hands.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Surely you have instructed many, And you have strengthened weak hands.
- New Living Translation (NLT)“In the past you have encouraged many people; you have strengthened those who were weak.
Context of Job 4:3
1Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said: 2"If one ventures a word with you, will you be impatient? Yet who can keep from speaking? Behold, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened the weak hands. 4Your words have upheld him who was stumbling, and you have made firm the feeble knees. 5But now it has come to you, and you are impatient; it touches you, and you are dismayed.
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הִ֭נֵּה יִסַּ֣רְתָּ רַבִּ֑ים וְיָדַ֖יִם רָפ֣וֹת תְּחַזֵּֽק׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 4:3
- Genesis 18:19For I have chosen him, that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice, so that the Lord may bring to Abraham what he has promised him."
- Proverbs 10:21The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of sense.
- Proverbs 15:7The lips of the wise spread knowledge; not so the hearts of fools.
- Proverbs 16:21The wise of heart is called discerning, and sweetness of speech increases persuasiveness.
- Isaiah 50:4The Lord God has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with a word him who is weary. Morning by morning he awakens; he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.
- Ephesians 4:29Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.
- Colossians 4:6Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.
- Job 16:5I could strengthen you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips would assuage your pain.
- Deuteronomy 3:28But charge Joshua, and encourage and strengthen him, for he shall go over at the head of this people, and he shall put them in possession of the land that you shall see.'
- Ezra 6:22And they kept the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days with joy, for the Lord had made them joyful and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria to them, so that he aided them in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.
- Isaiah 35:3Strengthen the weak hands, and make firm the feeble knees.
- Ezekiel 13:22Because you have disheartened the righteous falsely, although I have not grieved him, and you have encouraged the wicked, that he should not turn from his evil way to save his life,
- Luke 22:32but I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned again, strengthen your brothers."
Commentaries on Job 4:3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 3Thou hast instructed many - Thou hast seen many in affliction and distress, and thou hast given them such advice as was suitable to their state, and effectual to their relief; and by this means thou hast strengthened the weak hands, and the feeble knees - the desponding have been encouraged, and the irresolute confirmed and excited to prompt and proper actions, by thy counsel and example.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3Behold, thou hast instructed many - That is, thou hast instructed many how they ought to bear trials, and hast delivered important maxims to them on the great subject of the divine government. This is not designed to be irony, or to wound the feelings of Job. It is intended to recall to his mind the lessons which he had inculcated on others in times of calamity, and to show him how important it was now that he should reduce his own lessons to practice…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3-4These were people who were weak, felt depressed, and had low confidence in themselves (Isaiah 13:7; 35:3; Ezekiel 7:17).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 33. weak hands--Is 35:3; 2Sa 4:1.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 4
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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