Surely you have instructed many,
And you (A)have strengthened weak hands.
Your words have upheld him who was stumbling,
And you (B)have strengthened the [a]feeble knees;
But now it comes upon you, and you are weary;
It touches you, and you are troubled.
Is not (C)your reverence (D)your confidence?
And the integrity of your ways your hope?

“Remember now, (E)who ever perished being innocent?
Or where were the upright ever cut off?
Even as I have seen,
(F)Those who plow iniquity
And sow trouble reap the same.
By the blast of God they perish,
And by the breath of His anger they are consumed.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 4:4 Lit. bending

Think how you have instructed many,(A)
    how you have strengthened feeble hands.(B)
Your words have supported those who stumbled;(C)
    you have strengthened faltering knees.(D)
But now trouble comes to you, and you are discouraged;(E)
    it strikes(F) you, and you are dismayed.(G)
Should not your piety be your confidence(H)
    and your blameless(I) ways your hope?

“Consider now: Who, being innocent, has ever perished?(J)
    Where were the upright ever destroyed?(K)
As I have observed,(L) those who plow evil(M)
    and those who sow trouble reap it.(N)
At the breath of God(O) they perish;
    at the blast of his anger they are no more.(P)

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