Your words have steadied the one who was stumbling
and braced the knees that were buckling.(A)
But now that this has happened to you,
you have become exhausted.
It strikes(B) you, and you are dismayed.
Isn’t your piety your confidence,
and the integrity of your life[a] your hope?(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 4:6 Lit ways

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

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Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.

But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.

Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?

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