Job 4:6
4 Your words have steadied those who stumbled; you have braced the knees that were buckling.
5 But now trouble has come upon you, and you are weary. It strikes you, and you are dismayed.
Is your reverence not your confidence, and the uprightness of your ways your hope?
7 Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?
8 As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Is your reverence not your confidence, and the uprightness of your ways your hope?
- KJV
- Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?
- WEB
- Isn’t your piety your confidence? Isn’t the integrity of your ways your hope?
- ASV
- Is not thy fear [of God] thy confidence, [And] the integrity of thy ways thy hope?
- DARBY
- Hath not thy piety been thy confidence, and the perfection of thy ways thy hope?
- BLB
- Is not your fear your confidence, and the integrity of your ways your hope?
- ÅB
- Er ikke din gudsfrykt din tillit, din ulastelige ferd ditt håp?
- OTB
- Er ikke din ærbødighet for Gud din tillit,
og din veis integritet ditt håp? - B1930
- Er ikke din gudsfrykt din tillit, din ulastelige ferd ditt håp?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Proverbs 3:26
for the LORD will be your confidence and will keep your foot from the snare.
Read in contextProverbs 14:26
He who fears the LORD is secure in confidence, and his children shall have a place of refuge.
Read in contextJob 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.
Read in contextJob 17:15
where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me?
Read in contextJob 23:11–12
My feet have followed in His tracks; I have kept His way without turning aside.
Read in contextJob 13:15
Though He slay me, I will hope in Him. I will still defend my ways to His face.
Read in contextJob 16:17
yet my hands are free of violence and my prayer is pure.
Read in context1 Peter 1:13
Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober-minded. Set your hope fully on the grace to be given you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
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