Job 4:6
in Job 4Is your reverence not your confidence, and the uprightness of your ways your hope?
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Is not thy fear of God thy confidence, And the integrity of thy ways thy hope?
KJV
Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?
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This verse in Job 4
Commentary
3 notes on this verseIs 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.
This site's exposition
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
on Job 4:1-6
Eliphaz opens with a question that already answers itself, who can withhold himself from speaking, so his gentleness is a formality before the argument begins. He reminds Job of the counsel Job himself once gave the weak and the falling, thou hast strengthened the weak hands, and then turns that very memory into an accusation at verse five, but now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest. Henry notes the unkindness of measuring a man's own medicine against him the moment he needs it himself. Gill reads the question of verse six, is not this thy fear, thy confidence, as Eliphaz already doubting whether Job's religion was ever more than a comfortable theory.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
Thy fear - We now plainly see what was the nature of thy fear of God, thy confidence in him, the uprightness of thy ways, and thy hope in God's mercy. Thy present carriage discovers that it was but mere talk and appearance. Innocent - Therefore thou art guilty of some great, though secret crimes, and thy sin hath now found thee out.
The words behind it
6 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| הֲלֹ֣א | halo' | ¿ not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| יִ֭רְאָתְךָ | yiratekha | [is] fear your | H3374 → | 45 times |
| כִּסְלָתֶ֑ךָ | kislatekha | confidence your | H3690 → | |
| תִּ֝קְוָתְךָ֗ | tikvatecha | hope your | H8615 → | 34 times |
| וְתֹ֣ם | vetom | and [the] integrity of | H8537 → | |
| דְּרָכֶֽיךָ׃ | derakheikha | ways your | H1870 → | 707 times |
הֲלֹ֣א¿ not
halo'H3808 →5168 times
יִ֭רְאָתְךָ[is] fear your
yiratekhaH3374 →45 times
כִּסְלָתֶ֑ךָconfidence your
kislatekhaH3690 →
תִּ֝קְוָתְךָ֗hope your
tikvatechaH8615 →34 times
וְתֹ֣םand [the] integrity of
vetomH8537 →
דְּרָכֶֽיךָ׃ways your
derakheikhaH1870 →707 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Job 1:1There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. And this man was blameless and upright, fearing God and shunning evil.
it leads to
- James 5:11
See how blessed we consider those who have persevered. You have heard of Job’s perseverance and have seen the outcome from the Lord. The Lord is full of compassion and mercy.
- Ezekiel 14:14
then even if these three men—Noah, Daniel, and Job—were in it, their righteousness could deliver only themselves, declares the Lord GOD.
- Ezekiel 14:20
then as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, they could not deliver their own sons or daughters. Their righteousness could deliver only themselves.
- Job 28:28
And He said to man, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to turn away from evil is understanding.’”
- James 5:11
Through
Proverbs 3:26for the LORD will be your confidence and will keep your foot from the snare.
it leads to
- Psalms 91:3
Surely He will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly plague.
- Proverbs 14:26
He who fears the LORD is secure in confidence, and his children shall have a place of refuge.
- 1 Samuel 2:9
He guards the steps of His faithful ones, but the wicked perish in darkness; for by his own strength shall no man prevail.
- Psalms 91:9–10
Because you have made the LORD your dwelling— my refuge, the Most High—
- Psalms 91:3
About Job
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.