Your words have supported ¹  those who stumbled, ²  and you have strengthened the knees that gave way. ³ 

biblegateway Job 4:4

"Your words have helped the tottering to stand, And you have strengthened feeble knees.

Your words have steadied the one who was stumbling, and braced the knees that were buckling.

When someone stumbled, you lifted him up with your words. When knees were weak, you gave them strength.

biblegateway Job 4:4

Your words have supported those who stumbled; you have strengthened faltering knees.

Your words have upheld him who was stumbling, and you have made firm the feeble knees.

bibleoremus Job 4:4

Your words have supported those who were stumbling, and you have made firm the feeble knees.

how a word from you upheld those who stumbled and put strength into failing knees.

biblegateway Job 4:4

Your words have upheld him who was stumbling, And you have strengthened the feeble knees;

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

biblegateway Job 4:4

Your words have supported ¹  those who stumbled, ²  and you have strengthened the knees that gave way. ³ 

¹ tn Both verbs in this line are imperfects, and probably carry the same nuance as the last verb in v. 3, namely, either customary imperfect or preterite. The customary has the aspect of stressing that this was what Job used to do.

² tn The form is the singular active participle, interpreted here collectively. The verb is used of knees that give way (Isa 35:3; Ps 109:24).

³ tn The expression is often translated as “feeble knees,” but it literally says “the bowing [or “tottering”] knees.” The figure is one who may be under a heavy load whose knees begin to shake and buckle (see also Heb 12:12).

³ sn Job had been successful at helping others not be crushed by the weight of trouble and misfortune. It is easier to help others than to preserve a proper perspective when one’s self is afflicted (E. Dhorme, Job, 44).