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OET (OET-LV) [one_who]_stumbled[fn] supported words_your and_knees bending you_strengthened.
4:4 Note: We read one or more accents in L differently than BHS. Often this notation indicates a typographical error in BHS.
OET (OET-RV) Your words have encouraged those who were stumbling.
⇔ You’ve strengthened those whose knees were buckling.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy
כּ֭וֹשֵׁל יְקִימ֣וּן מִלֶּ֑יךָ
stumbling supported, words,your
Eliphaz is using the term words to mean what Job has said to people in the past by using words. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “What you have said has upheld the one stumbling”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
כּ֭וֹשֵׁל יְקִימ֣וּן מִלֶּ֑יךָ
stumbling supported, words,your
Eliphaz is speaking as if people who were struggling in life were literally stumbling and as if Job’s words or counsel had literally upheld them or kept them from falling down. He means that Job gave wise advice that encouraged people in their struggles and helped them not to give up. If it would be clearer in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “By your advice, you have encouraged struggling people not to give up”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / genericnoun
כּ֭וֹשֵׁל
stumbling
This phrase does not refer to a specific person. It refers to anyone in the situation that it describes. Express this in the way that would be most natural in your language. Alternate translation: “people who were stumbling” or “people who were struggling”
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy
וּבִרְכַּ֖יִם כֹּרְע֣וֹת תְּאַמֵּֽץ
and,knees feeble strengthened
Eliphaz is referring to exhaustion or despondency by association with way the people’s knees may be buckling under those circumstances. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use an equivalent expression or express the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “you have helped exhausted people to persevere” or “you have helped despondent people not to give up”
4:3-4 People . . . who were weak were depressed and suffered from low morale (Isa 13:7; 35:3; Ezek 7:17).
OET (OET-LV) [one_who]_stumbled[fn] supported words_your and_knees bending you_strengthened.
4:4 Note: We read one or more accents in L differently than BHS. Often this notation indicates a typographical error in BHS.
OET (OET-RV) Your words have encouraged those who were stumbling.
⇔ You’ve strengthened those whose knees were buckling.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.