Tree of Life Version
Job 4:6
6Is not your piety your confidence, the integrity of your 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?
- 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 stumbled, and strengthened buckling knees. 5Yet now it has come to you, and you are discouraged; it strikes you, and you are dismayed. Is not your piety your confidence, the integrity of your ways your hope? 7Reflect now: Who, being innocent, ever perished? And where were the upright destroyed? 8As I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow harm, reap them.
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הֲלֹ֣א יִ֭רְאָתְךָ כִּסְלָתֶ֑ךָ תִּ֝קְוָתְךָ֗ וְתֹ֣ם דְּרָכֶֽיךָ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 4:6
- Job 1:1There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. Now that man was blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil.
- 2 Kings 20:3“Please, Adonai, remember how I have walked before You in truth and with a whole heart, and have done what is good in Your eyes.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
- Job 13:15Even if He slays me, I will wait for Him; I will surely defend my ways before Him.
- Proverbs 3:26For Adonai will be your confidence and will keep your foot from a snare.
- Proverbs 14:26In the fear of Adonai one has strong confidence. It will be a refuge for His children.
- Job 17:15where then is my hope? And my hope, who sees it?
- 1 Peter 1:13So brace your minds for action. Keep your balance. And set your hope completely on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Yeshua the Messiah.
- Job 1:8Adonai said to the satan, “Did you notice my servant Job? There is no one like him on the earth—a blameless and upright man, who fears God and spurns evil.”
- Job 16:17yet no violence is in my hands and my prayer is pure.
- Job 23:11My foot has held closely to His steps; I have kept to His way and have not strayed.
- Job 27:5Far be it from me to say that you are just; until I die, I will not set aside my integrity!
- Job 29:12for I saved the poor who cried for help, and the orphan who had no one to help him;
- Job 31:1“I made a covenant with my eyes not to pay attention to 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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