Bible Strands
Job 4:5
But now trouble has come upon you, and you are weary. It strikes you, and you are dismayed.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Eliphaz addresses Job in his first speech, contrasting Job’s past function of steadying others with his present collapse under sudden affliction. The words — עַתָּה (a.Tah) = now and תִּגַּע (ti.Ga') = it reaches track the progression of hardship from external contact to internal exhaustion. The thread — The pattern of striking and weariness appears in Job 1:11, Job 19:21, and 2 Corinthians 4:16, linking physical or spiritual blow to the tension between collapse and renewal. Why it lands — The verse requires readers to acknowledge that prolonged distress fractures even disciplined faith, demanding honest confrontation with despair before any theological resolution.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.
Cross-references
- Job 19:21 Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.
- 2 Corinthians 4:16 Therefore we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, yet our inner self is being renewed day by day.
- Job 1:11 But stretch out Your hand and strike all that he has, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”
- Job 2:5 But stretch out Your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”
- Job 3:25 For the thing I feared has overtaken me, and what I dreaded has befallen me.
- Job 6:14 A despairing man should have the kindness of his friend, even if he forsakes the fear of the Almighty.
- Proverbs 24:10 If you faint in the day of distress, how small is your strength!
- 2 Corinthians 4:1 Therefore, since God in His mercy has given us this ministry, we do not lose heart.
- Hebrews 12:3 Consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.
- Hebrews 12:5 And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons: “My son, do not take lightly the discipline of the Lord, and do not lose heart when He rebukes you.