Is your reverence not your confidence, and the uprightness of your ways your hope?
Parallel translations
- WEB Isn’t your piety your confidence? Isn’t the integrity of your ways your hope?
- KJV Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?
- NKJV Is not your reverence your confidence? And the integrity of your ways your hope?
- NASB “Is your fear of God not your confidence, And the integrity of your ways your hope?
- NLT Doesn’t your reverence for God give you confidence? Doesn’t your life of integrity give you hope?
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Quick answer
Eliphaz asks whether Job's piety should not be his confidence. He hints that true godliness would sustain Job.
Overview
Eliphaz suggests that Job's fear of God and integrity ought to be the ground of his hope and assurance. On the surface this sounds pious, but it subtly questions whether Job's faith is genuine. The book will vindicate Job's integrity, showing that suffering is not proof of hidden sin or shallow faith.
Cross-references & the web
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- Prov 3:26for the LORD will be your confidence and will keep your foot from the snare.
- Prov 14:26He who fears the LORD is secure in confidence, and his children shall have a place of refuge.
- 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.
- Job 17:15where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me?
- Job 23:11–12My feet have followed in His tracks; I have kept His way without turning aside.
- Job 13:15Though He slay me, I will hope in Him. I will still defend my ways to His face.
- Job 16:17yet my hands are free of violence and my prayer is pure.
- 2 Kgs 20:3“Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with wholehearted devotion; I have done what was good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
- Job 29:12–17because I rescued the poor who cried out and the fatherless who had no helper.
- 1 Pet 1:13Therefore 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.
- Job 27:5–6I will never say that you are right; I will maintain my integrity until I die.
- 1 Pet 1:17Since you call on a Father who judges each one’s work impartially, conduct yourselves in reverent fear during your stay as foreigners.
- Job 1:8–10Then 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 31:1–40“I have made a covenant with my eyes. How then could I gaze with desire at a virgin?
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