God’s Word Translation
Job 4:6
6Doesn’t your fear of God give you confidence and your lifetime of integrity give you 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
4When someone stumbled, you lifted him up with your words. When knees were weak, you gave them strength. 5But trouble comes to you, and you’re impatient. It touches you, and you panic. Doesn’t your fear of God give you confidence and your lifetime of integrity give you hope? 7“Now think about this: Which innocent person ⌞ever⌟ died ⌞an untimely death⌟? Find me a decent person who has been destroyed. 8Whenever I saw those who plowed wickedness and planted misery, they gathered its harvest.
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הֲלֹ֣א יִ֭רְאָתְךָ כִּסְלָתֶ֑ךָ תִּ֝קְוָתְךָ֗ וְתֹ֣ם דְּרָכֶֽיךָ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 4:6
- Job 1:1A man named Job lived in Uz. He was a man of integrity: He was decent, he feared God, and he stayed away from evil.
- 2 Kings 20:3“Please, Lord, remember how I’ve lived faithfully and sincerely in your presence. I’ve done what you consider right.” And he cried bitterly.
- Job 13:15If God would kill me, I would have no hope ⌞left⌟. Nevertheless, I will defend my behavior to his face.
- Proverbs 3:26The Lord will be your confidence. He will keep your foot from getting caught.
- Proverbs 14:26In the fear of the Lord there is strong confidence, and his children will have a place of refuge.
- Job 17:15then where is my hope? Can you see any hope left in me?
- 1 Peter 1:13Therefore, your minds must be clear and ready for action. Place your confidence completely in what God’s kindness will bring you when Jesus Christ appears again.
- Job 1:8The Lord asked Satan, “Have you thought about my servant Job? No one in the world is like him! He is a man of integrity: He is decent, he fears God, and he stays away from evil.”
- Job 16:17although my hands have done nothing violent, and my prayer is sincere.
- Job 23:11I have followed his footsteps closely. I have stayed on his path and did not turn from it.
- Job 27:5It’s unthinkable for me to admit that you are right. Until I breathe my last breath, I will never give up my claim of integrity.
- Job 29:12because I rescued the poor who called ⌞for help⌟ and the orphans who had no one to help them.
- Job 31:1“I have made an agreement with my eyes. Then how can I look with lust 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
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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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