Job 4:5
But now, it comes to you, || And you are weary; It strikes to you, and you are troubled.
Literal Standard Version
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 raise up the stumbling one, || And you strengthen bowing knees.
6Is your reverence not your confidence? Your hope—the perfection of your ways?
Cross References
Job 1:11You have blessed the work of his hands, and his substance has spread in the land, and yet, put forth Your hand now, and strike against anything that he has—if not, he blesses You to Your face!”
Job 3:25For I feared a fear and it meets me, || And what I was afraid of comes to me.
Job 19:21Pity me, pity me, you my friends, || For the hand of God has struck against me.
Proverbs 24:10You have showed yourself weak in a day of adversity, || Your power is restricted,
2 Corinthians 4:16for this reason, we do not faint, but if our outward man also decays, yet the inward is renewed day by day;
Hebrews 12:5and you have forgotten the exhortation that speaks fully to you as to sons, “My son, do not despise [the] discipline of [the] LORD, nor be faint, being reproved by Him,
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 →