But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.
Parallel translations
- WEB 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.
- NKJV But now it comes upon you, and you are weary; It touches you, and you are troubled.
- NASB “But now it comes to you, and you are impatient; It touches you, and you are horrified.
- NLT But now when trouble strikes, you lose heart. You are terrified when it touches you.
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Quick answer
Eliphaz notes that now trouble has come, Job himself faints. He implies Job should bear his own medicine.
Overview
Eliphaz observes that when suffering strikes Job, he is dismayed and troubled, unlike the strength he once gave others. The remark carries a gentle reproach that Job is not living up to his own counsel. It reveals the friends' lack of true sympathy and their failure to grasp the depth of innocent suffering.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 10
- Job 19:21Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
- 2 Cor 4:16For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
- Prov 24:10If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.
- Job 6:14To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
- 2 Cor 4:1Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;
- Job 3:25–26For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.
- Heb 12:5And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
- Heb 12:3For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
- Job 1:11But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.
- Job 2:5But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.
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