Job 4:6 “Is your reverence not your confidence, and the uprightness of your way…”

Job 4:6

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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?

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

Is not this thy feare, thy confidence, thy pacience, and the vprightnesse of thy wayes?

Darby Translation

Hath not thy piety been thy confidence, and the perfection of thy ways thy hope?

Young's Literal Translation

Is not thy reverence thy confidence? Thy hope — the perfection of thy ways?

Bible in Basic English

Is not your fear of God your support, and your upright way of life your hope?

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Cross references

“thy fear”

Job 1:1 2 Kings 20:3 Job 1:9 Job 1:10

Job 1:1 · BSB

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.

2 Kings 20:3 · BSB

“Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with wholehearted devotion; I have done what is good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

Job 1:9 · BSB

Satan answered the LORD, “Does Job fear God for nothing?

Job 1:10 · BSB

Have You not placed a hedge on every side around him and his household and all that he owns? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.

“thy confidence”

Proverbs 3:26 Proverbs 14:26 Job 13:15

Proverbs 3:26 · BSB

for the LORD will be your confidence and will keep your foot from the snare.

Proverbs 14:26 · BSB

He who fears the LORD is secure in confidence, and his children shall have a place of refuge.

Job 13:15 · BSB

Though He slay me, I will hope in Him. I will still defend my ways to His face.

“thy hope”

Job 17:15 1 Peter 1:13 1 Peter 1:17

Job 17:15 · BSB

where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me?

1 Peter 1:13 · BSB

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.

1 Peter 1:17 · BSB

Since you call on a Father who judges each one’s work impartially, conduct yourselves in reverent fear during your stay as foreigners.

“the uprightness”

Job 16:17 Job 29:12–17 Job 31:1–40 Job 1:8 Job 23:11 Job 23:12

Job 16:17 · BSB

yet my hands are free of violence and my prayer is pure.

Job 29:12–17 · BSB

because I rescued the poor who cried out and the fatherless who had no helper.

Job 31:1–40 · BSB

“I have made a covenant with my eyes. How then could I gaze with desire at a virgin?

Job 1:8 · BSB

Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one on earth like him, a man who is blameless and upright, who fears God and shuns evil.”

Job 23:11 · BSB

My feet have followed in His tracks; I have kept His way without turning aside.

Job 23:12 · BSB

I have not departed from the command of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my daily bread.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

5But now trouble has come upon you, and you are weary. It strikes you, and you are dismayed.

7Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?

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