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3-4 In the past[a] you have told many a troubled soul to trust in God and have encouraged those who are weak or falling, or lie crushed upon the ground or are tempted to despair. But now when trouble strikes, you faint and are broken.

“At such a time as this should not trust in God still be your confidence? Shouldn’t you believe that God will care for those who are good?[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Job 4:3 In the past, implied. you have told many a troubled soul to trust in God, literally, “you have instructed many.”
  2. Job 4:6 that God will care for those who are good? Literally, “the integrity of your ways, your hope.”

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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