3 Think how you have instructed many, how you have strengthened feeble hands.
3 Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands.
3 Behold, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened the weak hands.
3 You yourself have done this plenty of times, spoken words that clarify, encouraged those who were about to quit.
3 Surely you have instructed many, And you have strengthened weak hands.
3 "In the past you have encouraged many people; you have strengthened those who were weak.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 4:3
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?