Job 4:6
Is your reverence not your confidence? Your hope—the perfection of your ways?
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?
In Context
5But now, it comes to you, || And you are weary; It strikes to you, and you are troubled.
7Now remember, || Who, being innocent, has perished? And where have the upright been cut off?
Cross References
Job 1:1There has been a man in the land of Uz—his name Job—and that man has been perfect and upright—both fearing God, and turning aside from evil.
Job 13:15Behold, He slays me—I do not wait! Only, I argue my ways to His face.
Job 17:15And where [is] my hope now? Indeed, my hope, who beholds it?
Job 27:5Defilement to me—if I justify you, || Until I expire I do not turn aside my integrity from me.
Job 31:1“I made a covenant for my eyes, || And how do I attend to a virgin?
Proverbs 3:26For YHWH is at your side, || And He has kept your foot from capture.
Matthew Henry on Job 4:2-7
The Address of Eliphaz. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, 2 If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking? 3 Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands. 4 Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees. 5 But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled. 6 Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the… Read the whole commentary →