"Behold, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened the weak hands. Your words have upheld him who was stumbling, and you have made firm the feeble knees. But now it has come to you, and you are impatient; it touches you, and you are dismayed. Is not your fear of God your confidence, and the integrity of your ways your hope?"
Job 4:3-6

Job had been one who instructed others in the ways of the Lord. He had helped those who wandering to find their way back home. He had caused stability in the lives of those who were stumbling. He had told his wife in chapter 2 that she spoke as a foolish woman, rebutting her comment with his own, saying, "shall we receive good from God, and shall we not receive evil?"

The weight of the world began to crash down harder. He started to break. It was time to practice what he had preached. How often do we find ourselves strengthening others in their times of despair but then can't seem to find any hope in our own trails? We must retain our fear of God, and let that be our sole confidence, knowing that as we continue to stay faithful to His word, that we have hope.

May we not speak the truth and then live as if it were a lie.