Isn’t your piety your confidence? Isn’t the integrity of your ways your hope?
Parallel translations
- KJV Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?
- 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 Yahweh will be your confidence, and will keep your foot from being taken.
- Prov 14:26In the fear of Yahweh is a secure fortress, and he will be a refuge for his children.
- Job 1:1There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.
- Job 17:15where then is my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
- Job 23:11–12My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned aside.
- Job 13:15Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.
- Job 16:17Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
- 2 Kgs 20:3“Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
- Job 29:12–17Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him,
- 1 Pet 1:13Therefore prepare your minds for action, be sober, and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ —
- Job 27:5–6Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.
- 1 Pet 1:17If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man’s work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear:
- Job 1:8–10Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant, Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil.”
- Job 31:1–40“I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?
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