Job 4:5
But now trouble has come upon you, and you are weary. It strikes you, and you are dismayed.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.
In Context
4Your words have steadied those who stumbled; you have braced the knees that were buckling.
6Is your reverence not your confidence, and the uprightness of your ways your hope?
Cross References
Job 1:11But stretch out Your hand and strike all that he has, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”
Job 3:25For the thing I feared has overtaken me, and what I dreaded has befallen me.
Job 19:21Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.
Proverbs 24:10If you faint in the day of distress, how small is your strength!
2 Corinthians 4:16Therefore we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, yet our inner self is being renewed day by day.
Hebrews 12:5And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons: “My son, do not take lightly the discipline of the Lord, and do not lose heart when He rebukes you.
Matthew Henry on Job 4:2-7
The Address of Eliphaz. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, 2 If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking? 3 Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands. 4 Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees. 5 But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled. 6 Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the… Read the whole commentary →