Job 4:5

But now it has come to you, and you faint. It touches you, and you are troubled.

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WEBBE

But now it has come to you, and you faint. It touches you, and you are troubled.

BSB

But now trouble has come upon you, and you are weary. It strikes you, and you are dismayed.

KJV

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

ASV

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

BBE

But now it has come on you and it is a weariness to you; you are touched by it and your mind is troubled.

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כִּי ki for H3588 עַתָּה 'a·tah now H6258 תָּבוֹא ta·vo' it comes H935 אֵלֶיךָ 'e·lei·kha to you H413 וַתֵּלֶא va·te·le' and you have become impatient H3811 תִּגַּע ti·ga' it reaches H5060 עָדֶיךָ 'a·dei·kha to you H5704 וַתִּבָּהֵל va·ti·ba·hel and you have become dismayed H926

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 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?

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Afflictions And Adversities

Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Hebrew and Greek data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. Library: sources.