You will know that your home is safe. When you survey your possessions, nothing will be missing.
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.
- BSB You will know that your tent is secure, and find nothing amiss when inspecting your home.
- 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.
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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 121:7–8Yahweh will keep you from all evil. He will keep your soul.
- Ps 91:10no evil shall happen to you, neither shall any plague come near your dwelling.
- Job 8:6If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.
- Isa 4:5–6Yahweh will create over the whole habitation of Mount Zion, and over her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory will be a canopy.
- Deut 28:6You shall be blessed when you come in, and you shall be blessed when you go out.
- Ps 107:4They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way. They found no city to live in.
- Job 18:21Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous. This is the place of him who doesn’t know God.”
- Job 18:6The light shall be dark in his tent. His lamp above him shall be put out.
- Ps 25:13His soul shall dwell at ease. His offspring shall inherit the land.
- Ps 107:40He pours contempt on princes, and causes them to wander in a trackless waste.
- 1 Sam 30:3When David and his men came to the city, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, their sons, and their daughters were taken captive.
- Job 21:7–9“Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?
- Job 18:15There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his. Sulfur shall be scattered on his habitation.
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