Job 4:6

Job 4:6 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?
• New International Version (NIV)Should not your piety be your confidence and your blameless ways your hope?
• English Standard Version (ESV)Is not your fear of God your confidence, and the integrity of your ways your hope?
• New King James Version (NKJV)Is not your reverence your confidence? And the integrity of your ways your hope?

Context of Job 4:6

4Your words have helped the one who was stumbling to stand, And you have strengthened feeble knees. 5But now adversity comes upon you, and you are impatient and intolerant; It touches you, and you are horrified. Is not your fear of God your confidence, And [is not] the integrity and uprightness of your ways your hope? 7“Remember now, who, being innocent, ever perished? Or where [and in what circumstances] were those upright and in right standing with God destroyed? 8As I have seen, those who plow wickedness And those who sow trouble and harm harvest it.

Job 4:6 word by word

הֲלֹ֣א יִ֭רְאָתְךָ כִּסְלָתֶ֑ךָ תִּ֝קְוָתְךָ֗ וְתֹ֣ם דְּרָכֶֽיךָ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• thy fearיִרְאָהyir'âh · fearH3374
• thy confidenceכִּסְלָהkislâh · confidenceH3690
• thy hopeתִּקְוָהtiqvâh · hopeH8615
• and the uprightnessתֹּםtôm · integrityH8537
• of thy waysדֶּ֫רֶךְderek · way: conductH1870

Cross-references for Job 4:6

• Job 1:1There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job; and that man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God [with reverence] and abstained from and turned away from evil [because he honored God].
• 2 Kings 20:3“Please, O Lord, remember now [with compassion] how I have walked before You in faithfulness and truth and with a whole heart [entirely devoted to You], and have done what is good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
• Job 13:15Even though He kills me; I will hope in Him. Nevertheless, I will argue my ways to His face.
• Proverbs 3:26For the Lord will be your confidence, firm and strong, And will keep your foot from being caught [in a trap].
• Proverbs 14:26In the [reverent] fear of the Lord there is strong confidence, And His children will [always] have a place of refuge.
• Job 17:15Where now is my hope? And who regards or considers or is even concerned about my hope?
• 1 Peter 1:13So prepare your minds for action, be completely sober [in spirit—steadfast, self-disciplined, spiritually and morally alert], fix your hope completely on the grace [of God] that is coming to you when Jesus Christ is revealed.
• Job 1:8The Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered and reflected on My servant Job? For there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, one who fears God [with reverence] and abstains from and turns away from evil [because he honors God].”
• Job 16:17Although there is no violence or wrongdoing in my hands, And my prayer is pure.
• Job 23:11My feet have carefully followed His steps; I have kept His ways and not turned aside.
• Job 27:5Far be it from me that I should admit you are right [in your accusations against me]; Until I die, I will not remove my integrity from me.
• Job 29:12Because I rescued the poor who cried for help, And the orphan who had no helper.
• Job 31:1“I have made a covenant (agreement) with my eyes; How then could I gaze [lustfully] at a virgin?

Commentaries on Job 4:6

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 6Is not this thy fear - I think Coverdale hits the true meaning: Where is now thy feare of God, thy stedfastnesse, thy pacience, and the perfectnesse of thy life? If these be genuine, surely there is no cause for all this complaint, vexation, and despair. That this is the meaning, the next words show.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 6Is not this thy fear, thy confidence? - There has been considerable variety in the interpretation of this verse. Dr. Good renders it, Is thy piety then nothing? thy hope Thy contidence? or the uprightness of thy ways? Noyes renders it, Is not thy fear of God thy hope, And the uprightness of thy ways the confidence? Rosenmuller translates it, Is not in thy piety and integrity of life Thy confidence and hope? In the Vulgate it is translated, “Where is thy…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 66. Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, &c.--Does thy fear, thy confidence, come to nothing? Does it come only to this, that thou faintest now? Rather, by transposition, "Is not thy fear (of God) thy hope? and the uprightness of thy ways thy confidence? If so, bethink thee, who ever perished being innocent?" [Umbreit]. But Lu 13:2, 3 shows that, though there is a retributive divine government even in this life, yet we cannot judge by the mere outward…Read the comment

Topics related to Job 4:6

• Doubting

In the dictionaries

• Clay
• Crush
• Prey
• Confidence
• Eliphaz (2)
• Eliphaz
• integrity

Commentaries on Job 4

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings