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

4With your words, you have saved people from danger. You have helped people who are in trouble to be brave. 5But now you are the person who has trouble. You yourself are not patient. Trouble has come to you and you feel afraid. But you respect God's authority, so you should trust him. You live in an honest way, so you should still hope for better things. 7Think about this: People who are not guilty of sin do not suddenly die. God does not destroy people who do good things. 8I will tell you what I have seen. Trouble comes to people who do wicked things. They receive the punishment that they deserve.

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 who lived in a place called Uz. His name was Job. He was a good and honest man. He was afraid to make God angry. He refused to do evil things.
• 2 Kings 20:3He said, ‘Lord, please remember that I have served you well. I have always obeyed you. You could trust me to do the things that you told me to do.’ Hezekiah wept very much.
• Job 13:15Even if God kills me, I will still trust him. I will tell him why I am not guilty.
• Proverbs 3:26The Lord is the one who will take care of you. He will protect you, so that no danger can hurt you.
• Proverbs 14:26Someone who respects and obeys the Lord knows that he will be safe. His family also will be in a safe place.
• Job 17:15I can hope for nothing that is better than that. No one can find anything better for me.
• 1 Peter 1:13So now, prepare your minds, so that you are ready to live in a good way. Think clearly about how God helps you. Always remember that God will be very kind to you when Jesus Christ comes again.
• Job 1:8Then the Lord said to Satan, ‘You have seen Job, who is my servant. What do you think about him? There is no one on earth that is like him. He is a good and honest man. He is afraid to make me angry. He refuses to do evil things.’
• Job 16:17But I have not been cruel. And when I pray, I speak honestly to God.
• Job 23:11I have always lived in the way that God showed me. I have obeyed him faithfully. I have not turned away from his teaching.
• Job 27:5I will never agree that you, my three friends, are right. Until the day of my death, I will continue to say what I know is right.
• Job 29:12When poor people cried for help, I rescued them. I helped children who had no family that could help them.
• Job 31:1‘I have made a promise with myself about how I look at young women. I will never think that I want to have sex with them.

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