Job 4:6
New International Version
Should not your piety be your confidence and your blameless ways your hope?

New Living Translation
Doesn’t your reverence for God give you confidence? Doesn’t your life of integrity give you hope?

English Standard Version
Is not your fear of God your confidence, and the integrity of your ways your hope?

Berean Standard Bible
Is your reverence not your confidence, and the uprightness of your ways your hope?

King James Bible
Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?

New King James Version
Is not your reverence your confidence? And the integrity of your ways your hope?

New American Standard Bible
“Is your fear of God not your confidence, And the integrity of your ways your hope?

NASB 1995
“Is not your fear of God your confidence, And the integrity of your ways your hope?

NASB 1977
“Is not your fear of God your confidence, And the integrity of your ways your hope?

Legacy Standard Bible
Is not your fear of God your confidence, And the integrity of your ways your hope?

Amplified Bible
“Is not your fear of God your confidence, And [is not] the integrity and uprightness of your ways your hope?

Christian Standard Bible
Isn’t your piety your confidence, and the integrity of your life your hope?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Isn’t your piety your confidence, and the integrity of your life your hope?

American Standard Version
Is not thy fear of God thy confidence, And the integrity of thy ways thy hope?

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Behold, this your religion is blaming you, also your hope and the integrity of your way

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Is not thy fear founded in folly, thy hope also, and the mischief of thy way?

Contemporary English Version
You respect God and live right, so don't lose hope!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Where is thy fear, thy fortitude, thy patience, and the perfection of thy ways?

English Revised Version
Is not thy fear of God thy confidence, and thy hope the integrity of thy ways?

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Doesn't your fear of God give you confidence and your lifetime of integrity give you hope?

Good News Translation
You worshiped God, and your life was blameless; and so you should have confidence and hope.

International Standard Version
"Your fear of God has been your confidence, hasn't it? The integrity of your life has been your hope, hasn't it?

JPS Tanakh 1917
Is not thy fear of God thy confidence, And thy hope the integrity of thy ways?

Literal Standard Version
Is your reverence not your confidence? Your hope—the perfection of your ways?

Majority Standard Bible
Is your reverence not your confidence, and the uprightness of your ways your hope?

New American Bible
Is not your piety a source of confidence, and your integrity of life your hope?

NET Bible
Is not your piety your confidence, and your blameless ways your hope?

New Revised Standard Version
Is not your fear of God your confidence, and the integrity of your ways your hope?

New Heart English Bible
Isn't your piety your confidence? Isn't the integrity of your ways your hope?

Webster's Bible Translation
Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?

World English Bible
Isn’t your piety your confidence? Isn’t the integrity of your ways your hope?

Young's Literal Translation
Is not thy reverence thy confidence? Thy hope -- the perfection of thy ways?

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Eliphaz: The Innocent Prosper
5But now trouble has come upon you, and you are weary. It strikes you, and you are dismayed. 6Is your reverence not your confidence, and the uprightness of your ways your hope? 7Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?…

Cross References
Job 1:1
There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. And this man was blameless and upright, fearing God and shunning evil.

Psalm 27:3
Though an army encamps around me, my heart will not fear; though a war breaks out against me, I will keep my trust.

Proverbs 3:26
for the LORD will be your confidence and will keep your foot from the snare.


Treasury of Scripture

Is not this your fear, your confidence, your hope, and the uprightness of your ways?

thy fear.

Job 1:1,9,10
There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil…

2 Kings 20:3
I beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.

thy confidence.

Job 13:15
Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.

Proverbs 3:26
For the LORD shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken.

Proverbs 14:26
In the fear of the LORD is strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge.

thy hope.

Job 17:15
And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?

1 Peter 1:13,17
Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; …

the uprightness.

Job 1:8
And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?

Job 16:17
Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.

Job 23:11,12
My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined…

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1. Eliphaz reproves Job that the innocent do not suffer
7. He teaches God's judgments to be not for the righteous, but for the wicked.
12. His fearful vision to humble the excellency of creatures before God.














(6) Is not this thy fear, thy confidence . . .?--The meaning seems to be, "Should not thy fear or piety be thy confidence, and the uprightness of thy ways thy hope? Should not the piety thou wast so ready to commend to others supply a sufficient ground of hope for thyself?" Or we may understand, "Is not thy reverence, thy confidence, thy hope, and thy integrity shown to be worthless if thou faintest as soon as adversity toucheth thee?" The drift of the speaker is virtually the same in either case.

Verse 6. - Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways? Translate, with the Revised Version, Is not thy fear of God thy confidence and thy hope the integrity of thy ways? The verse is composed, as usual, of two clauses, balancing each other; and the meaning seems to be that, if Job is as convinced of his piety and uprightness as he professes to be, he ought still to maintain confidence in God, and a full expectation of deliverance from his troubles. If he does not, what is the natural inference? Surely, that he is not so confident of his innocence as he professes to be.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Is your reverence
יִ֭רְאָתְךָ (yir·’ā·ṯə·ḵā)
Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 3373: Fearing, reverent

not
הֲלֹ֣א (hă·lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

your confidence,
כִּסְלָתֶ֑ךָ (kis·lā·ṯe·ḵā)
Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 3690: Stupidity, confidence

and the uprightness
וְתֹ֣ם (wə·ṯōm)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 8537: Completeness, integrity, also part of the high priest's breastplate

of your ways
דְּרָכֶֽיךָ׃ (də·rā·ḵe·ḵā)
Noun - common plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 1870: A road, a course of life, mode of action

your hope?
תִּ֝קְוָתְךָ֗ (tiq·wā·ṯə·ḵā)
Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 8615: A cord, expectancy


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