Job 4:3
Behold, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened the weak hands.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands.
In Context
2If we analyse to commune with you, will you be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking?
4Your words have raised up him that was falling, and you have strengthened the feeble knees.
Cross References
Genesis 18:19For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he has spoken of him.
Ezra 6:22And kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy: for the LORD had made them joyful, and turned the heart of the king of Assyria unto 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 for lack of wisdom.
Proverbs 16:21The wise in heart shall be called prudent: and the sweetness of the lips increases learning.
Isaiah 50:4The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakens morning by morning, he wakens mine ear to hear as the learned.
Luke 22:32But I have prayed for you, that your faith fail not: and when you are converted, strengthen your brethren.
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 →