Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?
Parallel translations
- WEB Isn’t your piety your confidence? Isn’t the integrity of your ways your hope?
- BSB Is your reverence not your confidence, and the uprightness of your ways your hope?
- 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 shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken.
- Prov 14:26In the fear of the LORD is strong 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 that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.
- Job 17:15And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
- Job 23:11–12My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.
- Job 13:15Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
- Job 16:17Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.
- 2 Kgs 20:3I 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.
- Job 29:12–17Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
- 1 Pet 1:13Wherefore 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;
- Job 27:5–6God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.
- 1 Pet 1:17And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man’s work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:
- Job 1:8–10And 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 31:1–40I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?
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