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Job 4:6
6Doesn’t your reverence for God give you confidence? Doesn’t your life 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
4Your words have supported those who were falling; you encouraged those with shaky knees. 5But now when trouble strikes, you lose heart. You are terrified when it touches you. Doesn’t your reverence for God give you confidence? Doesn’t your life of integrity give you hope? 7“Stop and think! Do the innocent die? When have the upright been destroyed? 8My experience shows that those who plant trouble and cultivate evil will harvest the same.
Read all of Job 4Job 4:6 word by word
הֲלֹ֣א יִ֭רְאָתְךָ כִּסְלָתֶ֑ךָ תִּ֝קְוָתְךָ֗ וְתֹ֣ם דְּרָכֶֽיךָ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 4:6
- Job 1:1There once was a man named Job who lived in the land of Uz. He was blameless—a man of complete integrity. He feared God and stayed away from evil.
- 2 Kings 20:3“Remember, O Lord, how I have always been faithful to you and have served you single-mindedly, always doing what pleases you.” Then he broke down and wept bitterly.
- Job 13:15God might kill me, but I have no other hope. I am going to argue my case with him.
- Proverbs 3:26for the Lord is your security. He will keep your foot from being caught in a trap.
- Proverbs 14:26Those who fear the Lord are secure; he will be a refuge for their children.
- Job 17:15Where then is my hope? Can anyone find it?
- 1 Peter 1:13So prepare your minds for action and exercise self-control. Put all your hope in the gracious salvation that will come to you when Jesus Christ is revealed to the world.
- Job 1:8Then the Lord asked Satan, “Have you noticed my servant Job? He is the finest man in all the earth. He is blameless—a man of complete integrity. He fears God and stays away from evil.”
- Job 16:17Yet I have done no wrong, and my prayer is pure.
- Job 23:11For I have stayed on God’s paths; I have followed his ways and not turned aside.
- Job 27:5I will never concede that you are right; I will defend my integrity until I die.
- Job 29:12For I assisted the poor in their need and the orphans who required help.
- Job 31:1“I made a covenant with my eyes not to look with lust 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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