Bible Strands
Job 4:6
Is your reverence not your confidence, and the uprightness of your ways your hope?
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Eliphaz addresses Job in his first speech, immediately after Job's curse on the day of his birth (Job 3). He invokes Job's own past character as the ground for his present trust.
The words — יִרְאָתְךָ (yir'āṯekā, "your fear/reverence") is equated with כִּסְלָתְךָ (kislaṯekā, "your confidence"), collapsing reverence and assurance into a single claim. The noun תּוֹם (tôm, "integrity") is the same word used in Job 1:1 to describe Job before the calamity.
The thread — Proverbs 14:26 states the same equation directly: "He who fears the LORD is secure in confidence." Job 1:1 supplies the biographical warrant Eliphaz appeals to, naming Job as one who feared God and shunned evil.
Why it lands — The verse forces a reader to test whether their confidence is actually anchored in reverence and upright conduct, or in something that has already failed. It is not a comfort; it is an audit of the foundation.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?
Cross-references
- Proverbs 3:26 for the LORD will be your confidence and will keep your foot from the snare.
- Proverbs 14:26 He who fears the LORD is secure in 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 this man was blameless and upright, fearing God and shunning evil.
- Job 17:15 where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me?
- Job 23:11 My feet have followed in His tracks; I have kept His way without turning aside.
- Job 13:15 Though He slay me, I will hope in Him. I will still defend my ways to His face.
- Job 16:17 yet my hands are free of violence and my prayer is pure.
- 2 Kings 20:3 “Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with wholehearted devotion; I have done what is good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
- Job 29:12 because I rescued the poor who cried out and the fatherless who had no helper.
- 1 Peter 1:13 Therefore 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.