Job 4:3
Behold, thou hast [ere this] corrected many, and weak hands thou wast wont to strengthen.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands.
In Context
4Him that stumbled thy words used to uphold, and to sinking knees thou gavest vigor.
Cross References
Genesis 18:19For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, that they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do righteousness and justice; in order that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken concerning him.
Ezra 6:22And they celebrated 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 Asshur toward them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.
Proverbs 10:21The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die through lack of sense.
Proverbs 16:21The wise in heart is called a man of understanding; and the sweetness of the lips increaseth information.
Isaiah 50:4The Lord Eternal hath given me a tongue for teaching, that I should know how to strengthen the weary with the word: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth my ear to listen like those who are well taught.
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 →