Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
Lo, thou hast instructed many, And feeble hands thou makest strong.
New American Standard Bible
And you have strengthened weak hands.
King James Version
Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands.
Holman Bible
and have strengthened
International Standard Version
Look! You've admonished many people, and you've strengthened feeble hands.
A Conservative Version
Behold, thou have instructed many, and thou have strengthened the weak hands.
American Standard Version
Behold, thou hast instructed many, And thou hast strengthened the weak hands.
Amplified
“Behold, you have admonished and instructed many,
And you have strengthened weak hands.
Bible in Basic English
Truly, you have been a helper to others, and you have made feeble hands strong;
Darby Translation
Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands;
Julia Smith Translation
Behold, thou didst instruct many, and thou wilt strengthen the weak hands.
King James 2000
Behold, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened the weak hands.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Look, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened weak hands.
Modern King James verseion
Behold, you have instructed many, and you have made the weak hands strong.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Behold, thou hast been a teacher of many, and hast comforted the weary hands.
NET Bible
Look, you have instructed many; you have strengthened feeble hands.
New Heart English Bible
Behold, you have instructed many, you have strengthened the weak hands.
The Emphasized Bible
Lo! thou hast admonished many, and, slack hands, hast thou been wont to uphold:
Webster
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.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 4:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
Eliphaz's First Response To Job
2 Hath one tried a word with thee? -- Thou art weary! And to keep in words who is able? 3 Lo, thou hast instructed many, And feeble hands thou makest strong. 4 The stumbling one do thy words raise up, And bowing knees thou dost strengthen.
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Cross References
Isaiah 35:3
Strengthen ye the feeble hands, Yea, the stumbling knees strengthen.
Genesis 18:19
for I have known him, that he commandeth his children, and his house after him (and they have kept the way of Jehovah), to do righteousness and judgment, that Jehovah may bring on Abraham that which He hath spoken concerning him.'
Deuteronomy 3:28
and charge Jehoshua, and strengthen him, and harden him, for he doth pass over before this people, and he doth cause them to inherit the land which thou seest.
Ezra 6:22
and they make the feast of unleavened things seven days with joy, for Jehovah made them to rejoice, and turned round the heart of the king of Asshur unto them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.
Job 16:5
I might harden you with my mouth, And the moving of my lips might be sparing.
Proverbs 10:21
The lips of the righteous delight many, And fools for lack of heart die.
Proverbs 15:7
The lips of the wise scatter knowledge, And the heart of fools is not right.
Proverbs 16:21
To the wise in heart is called, 'Intelligent,' And sweetness of lips increaseth learning.
Isaiah 50:4
The Lord Jehovah hath given to me The tongue of taught ones, To know to aid the weary by a word, He waketh morning by morning, He waketh for me an ear to hear as taught ones.
Ezekiel 13:22
Because of paining the heart of the righteous with falsehood, And I have not pained it, And strengthening the hands of the wicked, So as not to turn back from his evil way, To keep him alive,
Luke 22:32
and I besought for thee, that thy faith may not fail; and thou, when thou didst turn, strengthen thy brethren.'
Luke 22:43
And there appeared to him a messenger from heaven strengthening him;
Ephesians 4:29
Let no corrupt word out of your mouth go forth, but what is good unto the needful building up, that it may give grace to the hearers;
Colossians 4:6
your word always in grace -- with salt being seasoned -- to know how it behoveth you to answer each one.
Hebrews 12:12
Wherefore, the hanging-down hands and the loosened knees set ye up;