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Job 4:4
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Your words have steadied the one who was stumblingand braced the knees that were buckling.
Your words have supported him who was falling, You have made firm the feeble knees.
Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.
Your words have upheld him who was stumbling, and you have made firm the feeble knees.
Your words have comforted those who fell, and you have strengthened those who could not stand.
Your words have supported those who stumbled, and you have strengthened the knees that gave way.
"Your words have helped the stumbling to stand, And you have strengthened feeble knees.
Your words have supported him who was falling, You have made firm the feeble knees.
Thy wordes haue confirmed him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the weake knees.
Your words have helped the stumbling to stand,And you have encouraged feeble knees.
Your words have steadied those who stumbled; you have stabilized the knees that were buckling.
have guided and encouraged many in need.
your words have supported those who were stumbling, and you have strengthened the weak-kneed.
Thy words have upholden him that was stumbling, and thou hast braced up the bending knees:
Your words helped those who were ready to fall. You gave strength to those who could not stand by themselves.
Your words have upheld the weak, and you have strengthened the feeble knees.
When someone stumbled, weak and tired, your words encouraged him to stand.
Your words have raised up the one who stumbles, and you have strengthened knees giving way.
Your words have upheld him who was falling, and you have made feeble knees strong.
Thy wordes haue set vp those that were fallen, thou hast refresshed the weake knees.
Thy words have upholden him that was falling, And thou hast made firm the feeble knees.
He who was near to falling has been lifted up by your words, and you have given strength to bent knees.
Thy wordes haue set vp him that was falling, thou hast refreshed the weake knees.
Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.
Thy words haue vpholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.
and hast supported the failing with words, and hast imparted courage to feeble knees.
Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast confirmed the feeble knees.
Thi wordis confermyden men doutynge, and thou coumfortidist knees tremblynge.
Your words have upheld him that was falling, And you have made firm the feeble knees.
Thy words have upheld him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.
Your words have upheld him who was stumbling, And you have strengthened the feeble knees;
Your words have supported those who were falling; you encouraged those with shaky knees.
Your words have helped him stand who would have fallen. You have given strength to weak knees.
Your words have supported those who were stumbling, and you have made firm the feeble knees.
Him that was stumbling, have thy words raised up, and, sinking knees, hast thou strengthened.
Thy words have confirmed them that were staggering, and thou hast strengthened the trembling knees:
Your words have upheld him who was stumbling, and you have made firm the feeble knees.
The stumbling one do thy words raise up, And bowing knees thou dost strengthen.
"Your words have helped the tottering to stand, And you have strengthened feeble knees.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
upholden: Psalms 145:14, Proverbs 12:18, Proverbs 16:23, Proverbs 16:24, 2 Corinthians 2:7, 2 Corinthians 7:6, 1 Thessalonians 5:14
feeble knees: Heb. bowing knees, Isaiah 35:3, Isaiah 35:4, Daniel 5:6, Hebrews 12:12
Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 23:16 - strengthened Job 6:14 - To him Job 6:25 - forcible Job 6:26 - reprove Job 16:5 - But I would Job 26:2 - helped Job 27:11 - teach Job 29:25 - one that Job 42:11 - they bemoaned Proverbs 10:21 - feed Proverbs 27:17 - so Ecclesiastes 4:10 - if Ecclesiastes 10:12 - words Ezekiel 21:7 - all hands Luke 22:43 - strengthening Galatians 6:1 - restore Revelation 3:2 - strengthen
Cross-References
So Cain went away from the [manifested] presence of the LORD, and lived in the land of Nod [wandering in exile], east of Eden.
Cain knew his wife [one of Adam's descendants] and she conceived and gave birth to Enoch; and Cain built a city and named it Enoch, after the name of his son.
And Lamech took for himself two wives; the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other, Zillah.
Adah gave birth to Jabal; he became the father of those [nomadic herdsmen] who live in tents and have cattle and raise livestock.
When the sun had gone down and a [deep] darkness had come, there appeared a smoking brazier and a flaming torch which passed between the [divided] pieces [of the animals].
you shall set apart and dedicate to the LORD all that first opens the womb. All the firstborn males of your livestock shall be the LORD'S.
Then fire came out from before the LORD and consumed the burnt offering and the portions of fat on the altar; and when all the people saw it, they shouted and fell face downward [in awe and worship].
Fire also came forth from the LORD and consumed the two hundred and fifty men who were offering the incense.
"All the best of the fresh [olive] oil, and all the best of the new wine and of the grain, the first fruits of those which they give to the LORD, I give them to you.
"But the firstborn of a cow or of a sheep or of a goat you shall not redeem; they are holy [and belong to the LORD]. You shall sprinkle their blood on the altar and shall offer up their fat in smoke as an offering by fire, for a sweet and soothing aroma to the LORD.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Thy words have up, holden him that was falling,.... Or "stumbling" m; that was stumbling at the providence of God in suffering good men to be afflicted, and wicked men to prosper; which has been the stumbling block of God's people in all ages; see
Psalms 73:2; or that was stumbling and falling off from the true religion by reason of the revilings and reproaches of men, and their persecutions for it; which is sometimes the case, not only of nominal professors, Matthew 13:21; but of true believers, though they do not so stumble and fall as to perish: or else being under afflictions themselves, were ready to sink under them, their strength being small; now Job was helped to speak such words of comfort and advice to persons in any and every of these circumstances as to support them and preserve them from failing, and to enable them to keep their place and station among the people of God. The Targum interprets it of such as were falling into sin; the words of good men to stumbling and falling professors, whether into sin, or into affliction by it, are often very seasonable, and very useful, when attended with the power and Spirit of God:
and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees; that were tottering and trembling, and bending, and not able to bear up under the weight of sin, which lay as an heavy burden, too heavy to bear; or of afflictions very grievous and intolerable; to such persons Job had often spoken words that had been useful to alleviate their troubles, and support them under them. It may be observed, that the cases and circumstances of good men in early times were much the same as they are now; that there is no temptation or affliction that befalls the saints but what has been common; and that Job was a man of great gifts, grace, and experience, and had the tongue of the learned, to speak a word in season to every weary soul, in whatsoever condition they were: and all this, so very laudable in him, is not observed to his commendation, but to his reproach; to show that he was not a man of real virtue, that he contradicted himself, and did not act according to his profession and principles, and the doctrines he taught others, and was an hypocrite at heart; though no such conclusion follows, supposing he had not acted according to his principles and former conduct; for it is a difficult thing for any good man to act entirely according to them, or to behave the same in prosperity as in adversity, or to take that advice themselves in affliction, and follow it, they have given to others, and yet not be chargeable with hypocrisy. It would have been much better in Eliphaz and his friends to have made another use of Job's former conduct and behaviour, namely, to have imitated it, and endeavoured to have strengthened, and upheld him in his present distressed circumstances; instead of that, he insults him, as follows.
m כושל "offendentem", Cocceius; "impingentem", Drusius, Schmidt, Schultens, Michaelis.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Thy words have upholden him that was falling - That is, either falling into sin, or sinking under calamity and trial. The Hebrew will bear either interpretation, but the connection seems to require us to understand it of one who was sinking under the weight of affliction.
The feeble knees - Margin, “bowing.” The knees support the frame. If they fail, we are feeble and helpless. Hence, their being weak, is so often used in the Bible to denote imbecility. The sense is, that Job, in the days of his own prosperity, had exhorted others to submit to God; had counselled them in such a manner as actually to give them support, and that the same views should now have sustained him which he had so successfully employed in comforting others.
