Job 4:6

In 11 translations

BSB

Is your reverence not your confidence, and the uprightness of your ways your hope?

KJV

Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?

WEB

Isn’t your piety your confidence? Isn’t the integrity of your ways your hope?

ASV

Is not thy fear of God thy confidence, And the integrity of thy ways thy hope?

LSV

Is your reverence not your confidence? Your hope—the perfection of your ways?

YLT

Is not thy reverence thy confidence? Thy hope — the perfection of thy ways?

DBY

Hath not thy piety been thy confidence, and the perfection of thy ways thy hope?

DRC

Where is thy fear, thy fortitude, thy patience, and the perfection of thy ways?

GNV

Is not this thy feare, thy confidence, thy pacience, and the vprightnesse of thy wayes?

JPS

Is not thy fear of God thy confidence, and thy hope the integrity of thy ways?

LXXE

Is not thy fear founded in folly, thy hope also, and the mischief of thy way?

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Original-language editions

WLC

הֲלֹ֣א יִ֭רְאָתְךָ כִּסְלָתֶ֑ךָ תִּ֝קְוָתְךָ֗ וְתֹ֣ם דְּרָכֶֽיךָ׃

LXX-Br

Πότερον οὐχ ὁ φόβος σου ἐστὶν ἐν ἀφροσύνῃ, καὶ ἡ ἐλπίς σου καὶ ἡ κακία τῆς ὁδοῦ σου;

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• Proverbs 3:26for the LORD will be your confidence and will keep your foot from the snare.
• Proverbs 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. I have not departed from the command of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my daily bread.
• Job 16:17yet my hands are free of violence and my prayer is pure.
• Job 13:15Though He slay me, I will hope in Him. I will still defend my ways to His face.
• 2 Kings 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.
• 1 Peter 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 29:12–17because I rescued the poor who cried out and the fatherless who had no helper. The dying man blessed me, and I made the widow’s heart sing for joy. I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; justice was my robe and my…
• 1 Peter 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 27:5–6I will never say that you are right; I will maintain my integrity until I die. I will cling to my righteousness and never let go. As long as I live, my conscience will not accuse me.
• 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.” Satan answered the LORD, “Does Job fear God…
• Job 31:1–40“I have made a covenant with my eyes. How then could I gaze with desire at a virgin? For what is the allotment of God from above, or the heritage from the Almighty on high? Does not disaster come to the unjust and…

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