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

4Thy words have upholden him that was falling, And thou hast made firm the feeble knees. 5But now it is come unto thee, and thou faintest; It toucheth thee, and thou art troubled. Is not thy fear of God thy confidence, Andthe integrity of thy ways thy hope? 7Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off? 8According as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, And sow trouble, reap the same.

Job 4:6 word by word

הֲלֹ֣א יִ֭רְאָתְךָ כִּסְלָתֶ֑ךָ תִּ֝קְוָתְךָ֗ וְתֹ֣ם דְּרָכֶֽיךָ׃Read the interlinear

• fearיָרֵאyârê' · afraidH3373
• integrityתֹּםtôm · integrityH8537
• waysדֶּ֫רֶךְderek · way: conductH1870
• hopeתִּקְוָהtiqvâh · hopeH8615

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 perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and turned away from evil.
• 2 Kings 20:3Remember now, O Jehovah, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.
• Job 13:15Behold, he will slay me; I have no hope: Nevertheless I will maintain my ways before him.
• Proverbs 3:26For Jehovah will be thy confidence, And will keep thy foot from being taken.
• Proverbs 14:26In the fear of Jehovah is strong confidence; And his children shall have a place of refuge.
• Job 17:15Where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it?
• 1 Peter 1:13Wherefore girding up the loins of your mind, be sober and set your hope perfectly on the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
• Job 1:8And Jehovah said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job? for there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and turneth away from evil.
• Job 16:17Although there is no violence in my hands, And my prayer is pure.
• Job 23:11My foot hath held fast to his steps; His way have I kept, and turned not aside.
• Job 27:5Far be it from me that I should justify you: Till I die I will not put away mine integrity from me.
• Job 29:12Because I delivered the poor that cried, The fatherless also, that had none to help him.
• Job 31:1I made a covenant with mine eyes; How then should I look upon 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