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

◄ Job 4:3 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
Think how you have instructed many, how you have strengthened feeble hands.

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

New American Standard Bible
"Behold you have admonished many, And you have strengthened weak hands.

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

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

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

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

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

Darby Bible Translation
Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands;

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

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

4:1-6 Satan undertook to prove Job a hypocrite by afflicting him; and his friends concluded him to be one because he was so afflicted, and showed impatience. This we must keep in mind if we would understand what passed. Eliphaz speaks of Job, and his afflicted condition, with tenderness; but charges him with weakness and faint-heartedness. Men make few allowances for those who have taught others. Even pious friends will count that only a touch which we feel as a wound. Learn from hence to draw off the mind of a sufferer from brooding over the affliction, to look at the God of mercies in the affliction. And how can this be done so well as by looking to Christ Jesus, in whose unequalled sorrows every child of God soonest learns to forget his own?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

3. weak hands—Isa 35:3; 2Sa 4:1.