Christian Standard Bible
Job 4:6
6Isn’t your piety your confidence, and the integrity of your life your hope?
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 steadied the one who was stumbling and braced the knees that were buckling. 5But now that this has happened to you, you have become exhausted. It strikes you, and you are dismayed. Isn’t your piety your confidence, and the integrity of your life your hope? 7Consider: Who has perished when he was innocent? Where have the honest been destroyed? 8In my experience, those who plow injustice and those who sow trouble reap the same.
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הֲלֹ֣א יִ֭רְאָתְךָ כִּסְלָתֶ֑ךָ תִּ֝קְוָתְךָ֗ וְתֹ֣ם דְּרָכֶֽיךָ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 4:6
- Job 1:1There was a man in the country of Uz named Job. He was a man of complete integrity, who feared God and turned away from evil.
- 2 Kings 20:3“Please, Lord, remember how I have walked before you faithfully and wholeheartedly and have done what pleases you.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
- Job 13:15Even if he kills me, I will hope in him. I will still defend my ways before him.
- Proverbs 3:26for the Lord will be your confidence and will keep your foot from a snare.
- Proverbs 14:26In the fear of the Lord one has strong confidence and his children have a refuge.
- Job 17:15where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me?
- 1 Peter 1:13Therefore, with your minds ready for action, be sober-minded and set your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
- Job 1:8Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? No one else on earth is like him, a man of perfect integrity, who fears God and turns away from evil.”
- Job 16:17although my hands are free from violence and my prayer is pure.
- Job 23:11My feet have followed in his tracks; I have kept to his way and not turned aside.
- Job 27:5I will never affirm that you are right. I will maintain my integrity until I die.
- Job 29:12For I rescued the poor who cried out for help, and the fatherless child who had no one to support him.
- Job 31:1I have made a covenant with my eyes. How then could I look at a young woman?
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
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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
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