You will know that your tent is secure, and find nothing amiss when inspecting your home.
Parallel translations
- WEB You shall know that your tent is in peace. You shall visit your fold, and shall miss nothing.
- KJV And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin.
- NKJV You shall know that your tent is in peace; You shall visit your dwelling and find nothing amiss.
- NASB “You will know that your tent is secure, For you will visit your home and have nothing missing.
- NLT You will know that your home is safe. When you survey your possessions, nothing will be missing.
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Quick answer
You will know your tent is at peace and find nothing missing when you check your fold. It promises domestic security and the safety of one's household.
Overview
Eliphaz pictures a settled home and an intact flock, the marks of shalom in the ancient world. The promise of peace within one's dwelling reflects God's good design for ordered, blessed life. Such peace finds its true and lasting form in Christ, our peace, who reconciles us to God and grants a security no earthly tent can finally provide.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 13
- Ps 121:7–8The LORD will guard you from all evil; He will preserve your soul.
- Ps 91:10no evil will befall you, no plague will approach your tent.
- Job 8:6if you are pure and upright, even now He will rouse Himself on your behalf and restore your righteous estate.
- Isa 4:5–6Then the LORD will create over all of Mount Zion and over her assemblies a cloud of smoke by day and a glowing flame of fire by night. For over all the glory there will be a canopy,
- Deut 28:6You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.
- Ps 107:4Some wandered in desert wastelands, finding no path to a city in which to dwell.
- Job 18:21Surely such is the dwelling of the wicked and the place of one who does not know God.”
- Job 18:6The light in his tent grows dark, and the lamp beside him goes out.
- Ps 25:13His soul will dwell in prosperity, and his descendants will inherit the land.
- Ps 107:40He pours out contempt on the nobles and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.
- 1 Sam 30:3When David and his men came to the city, they found it burned down and their wives and sons and daughters taken captive.
- Job 21:7–9Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power?
- Job 18:15Fire resides in his tent; burning sulfur rains down on his dwelling.
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