4 Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.
4 Your words have supported those who stumbled; you have strengthened faltering knees.
4 Your words have upheld him who was stumbling, and you have made firm the feeble knees.
4 Your words have put stumbling people on their feet, put fresh hope in people about to collapse.
4 Your words have upheld him who was stumbling, And you have strengthened the feeble knees;
4 Your words have supported those who were falling; you encouraged those with shaky knees.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 4:4
Commentary on Job 4:1-6
(Read Job 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?