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Job 4:6
6Should not your piety be your confidence and your blameless ways 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?
- 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?
- New Living Translation (NLT)Doesn’t your reverence for God give you confidence? Doesn’t your life of integrity give you hope?
Context of Job 4:6
4Your words have supported those who stumbled; you have strengthened faltering knees. 5But now trouble comes to you, and you are discouraged; it strikes you, and you are dismayed. Should not your piety be your confidence and your blameless ways your hope? 7“Consider now: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Where were the upright ever destroyed? 8As I have observed, those who plow evil and those who sow trouble reap it.
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הֲלֹ֣א יִ֭רְאָתְךָ כִּסְלָתֶ֑ךָ תִּ֝קְוָתְךָ֗ וְתֹ֣ם דְּרָכֶֽיךָ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 4:6
- Job 1:1In the land of Uz there lived a man whose name was Job. This man was blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil.
- 2 Kings 20:3“Remember, Lord, how I have walked before you faithfully and with wholehearted devotion and have done what is good in your eyes.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
- Job 13:15Though he slay me, yet will I hope in him; I will surely defend my ways to his face.
- Proverbs 3:26for the Lord will be at your side and will keep your foot from being snared.
- Proverbs 14:26Whoever fears the Lord has a secure fortress, and for their children it will be a refuge.
- Job 17:15where then is my hope— who can see any hope for me?
- 1 Peter 1:13Therefore, with minds that are alert and fully sober, set your hope on the grace to be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed at his coming.
- Job 1:8Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil.”
- Job 16:17yet my hands have been free of violence and my prayer is pure.
- Job 23:11My feet have closely followed his steps; I have kept to his way without turning aside.
- Job 27:5I will never admit you are in the right; till I die, I will not deny my integrity.
- Job 29:12because I rescued the poor who cried for help, and the fatherless who had none to assist them.
- Job 31:1“I made a covenant with my eyes not to look lustfully 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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