Job 4:6 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁶Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?

Job 4:6 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 3:26
For the LORD shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken.
Proverbs 14:26
In the fear of the LORD is strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge.
Job 1:1
There 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 17:15
And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
Job 23:11-12
My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined. …

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Doubting Faith

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-6)

In these verses, I. Eliphaz excuses the trouble he is now about to give to Job by his discourse (Job 4:2): “ If we assay a word with thee, offer a word of reproof and counsel, wilt thou be grieved and take it ill?” We have reason to fear thou wilt; but there is no remedy: “ Who can refrain from words?” Observe, 1. With what modesty he speaks of himself and his own attempt. He will not undertake th…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 6)

6. Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, &c.--Does thy fear, thy confidence, come to nothing? Does it come only to this, that thou faintest now? Rather, by transposition, “Is not thy fear (of God) thy hope? and the uprightness of thy ways thy confidence? If so, bethink thee, who ever perished being innocent?” [Umbreit]. But Lu 13:2, 3 shows that, though there is a retributive divine government eve…