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 stumbling, and thou hast braced up the bending knees: 5But now it is come upon thee, and thou grievest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled. Hath not thy piety been thy confidence, and the perfection of thy ways thy hope? 7Remember, I pray thee, who that was innocent has perished? and where were the upright cut off? 8Even as I have seen, they that plough iniquity and sow mischief, reap the same.

Job 4:6 word by word

הֲלֹ֣א יִ֭רְאָתְךָ כִּסְלָתֶ֑ךָ תִּ֝קְוָתְךָ֗ וְתֹ֣ם דְּרָכֶֽיךָ׃Read the interlinear

• 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 this man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God and abstained from evil.
• 2 Kings 20:3Ah! Jehovah, remember, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done what is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept much.
• Job 13:15Behold, if he slay me, yet would I trust in him; but I will defend mine own ways before him.
• Proverbs 3:26for Jehovah shall be thy confidence, and he 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 17:15And where is then my hope? yea, my hope, who shall see it?
• 1 Peter 1:13Wherefore, having girded up the loins of your mind, [be] sober [and] hope with perfect stedfastness in the grace [which will be] brought to you at [the] revelation of Jesus Christ;
• Job 1:8And Jehovah said to Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God and abstaineth from evil?
• Job 16:17Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
• Job 23:11My foot hath held to his steps; his way have I kept, and not turned aside.
• Job 27:5Be it far from me that I should justify you; till I die I will not remove my blamelessness from me.
• Job 29:12For I delivered the afflicted that cried, and the fatherless who had no helper.
• Job 31:1I made a covenant with mine eyes; and how should I fix my regard upon a maid?

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