Job 4:3
New International Version
Think how you have instructed many, how you have strengthened feeble hands.

New Living Translation
“In the past you have encouraged many people; you have strengthened those who were weak.

English Standard Version
Behold, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened the weak hands.

Berean Standard Bible
Surely you have instructed many, and have strengthened their feeble hands.

King James Bible
Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands.

New King James Version
Surely you have instructed many, And you have strengthened weak hands.

New American Standard Bible
“Behold, you have taught many, And you have strengthened weak hands.

NASB 1995
“Behold you have admonished many, And you have strengthened weak hands.

NASB 1977
“Behold you have admonished many, And you have strengthened weak hands.

Legacy Standard Bible
Behold, you have disciplined many, And you have strengthened limp hands.

Amplified Bible
“Behold, you have admonished and instructed many, And you have strengthened weak hands.

Christian Standard Bible
Indeed, you have instructed many and have strengthened weak hands.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Indeed, you have instructed many and have strengthened weak hands.

American Standard Version
Behold, thou hast instructed many, And thou hast strengthened the weak hands.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Behold, you have instructed many, and you would strengthen the hands of the weak

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For whereas thou hast instructed many, and hast strengthened the hands of the weak one,

Contemporary English Version
Remember how your words

Douay-Rheims Bible
Behold thou hast taught many, and thou hast strengthened the weary hands:

English Revised Version
Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Certainly, you have instructed many people: When hands were weak, you made them strong.

Good News Translation
You have taught many people and given strength to feeble hands.

International Standard Version
Look! You've admonished many people, and you've strengthened feeble hands.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Behold, thou hast instructed many, And thou hast strengthened the weak hands.

Literal Standard Version
Behold, you have instructed many, | And feeble hands you make strong.

Majority Standard Bible
Surely you have instructed many, and have strengthened their feeble hands.

New American Bible
Look, you have instructed many, and made firm their feeble hands.

NET Bible
Look, you have instructed many; you have strengthened feeble hands.

New Revised Standard Version
See, you have instructed many; you have strengthened the weak hands.

New Heart English Bible
Look, you have instructed many, you have strengthened the weak hands.

Webster's Bible Translation
Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands.

World English Bible
Behold, you have instructed many, you have strengthened the weak hands.

Young's Literal Translation
Lo, thou hast instructed many, And feeble hands thou makest strong.

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Context
Eliphaz: The Innocent Prosper
2“If one ventures a word with you, will you be wearied? Yet who can keep from speaking? 3Surely you have instructed many, and have strengthened their feeble hands. 4Your words have steadied those who stumbled; you have braced the knees that were buckling.…

Cross References
Job 4:4
Your words have steadied those who stumbled; you have braced the knees that were buckling.

Job 29:11
For those who heard me called me blessed, and those who saw me commended me,

Job 29:15
I served as eyes to the blind and as feet to the lame.

Job 29:16
I was a father to the needy, and I took up the case of the stranger.

Job 29:21
Men listened to me with expectation, waiting silently for my counsel.

Isaiah 35:3
Strengthen the limp hands and steady the feeble knees!

Zephaniah 3:16
On that day they will say to Jerusalem: "Do not fear, O Zion; do not let your hands fall limp.


Treasury of Scripture

Behold, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened the weak hands.

Behold.

Genesis 18:19
For 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 hath spoken of him.

Proverbs 10:21
The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.

Proverbs 15:7
The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish doeth not so.

and thou hast.

Job 16:5
But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.

Deuteronomy 3:28
But charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him: for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which thou shalt see.

Ezra 6:22
And 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.

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Job 4
1. Eliphaz reproves Job that the innocent do not suffer
7. He teaches God's judgments to be not for the righteous, but for the wicked.
12. His fearful vision to humble the excellency of creatures before God.














(3) Behold, thou hast instructed many.--There is a conspicuous want of feeling in Eliphaz. Without any true sympathy, however, he may have given the outward signs of it (Job 2:12-13). He charges Job with inability to derive from his own principles that support which he had expected them to afford to others, and seems almost to rejoice malevolently that one who had been so great a help to others was now in need of help himself. "Calamity touches thee, and thou art overwhelmed by it."

Verse 3. - Behold, thou hast instructed many; or, corrected many. When others have been afflicted and murmured, thou hast corrected them, and shown them that they were suffering only what they deserved to suffer. In so doing, thou hast strengthened the weak hands; "given moral strength," i.e., "to those who were morally weak," upheld them, saved them from impatient words and hard thoughts of God.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Surely
הִ֭נֵּה (hin·nêh)
Interjection
Strong's 2009: Lo! behold!

you have instructed
יִסַּ֣רְתָּ (yis·sar·tā)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 3256: To discipline, chasten, admonish

many,
רַבִּ֑ים (rab·bîm)
Adjective - masculine plural
Strong's 7227: Much, many, great

and have strengthened
תְּחַזֵּֽק׃ (tə·ḥaz·zêq)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 2388: To fasten upon, to seize, be strong, obstinate, to bind, restrain, conquer

their feeble
רָפ֣וֹת (rā·p̄ō·wṯ)
Adjective - feminine plural
Strong's 7504: An Israelite in the line of Saul

hands.
וְיָדַ֖יִם (wə·yā·ḏa·yim)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - fd
Strong's 3027: A hand


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