Bible Strands
Job 5:24
You will know that your tent is secure, and find nothing amiss when inspecting your home.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Eliphaz addresses Job within a discourse on the blessings of righteousness, positioning this promise between assurances of peace with the natural world and the multiplication of descendants.
The words — שָׁלוֹם (sha.Lom) literally means safety or wholeness, and תֶחֱטָא (te.che.Ta') means to miss, lack, or perish. The phrasing frames domestic security as the concrete absence of loss rather than abstract comfort.
The thread — The promise of unbroken household preservation appears in Psalms 121:7 and Psalms 91:10, which similarly pledge divine guarding against evil and plague. The immediate context of Job 5:23–25 and the restoration motif in Job 8:6 tie this verse to a broader pattern of covenantal peace and restored estate.
Why it lands — The text requires a reader to accept tangible, daily preservation as the visible marker of divine favor. It calls for practical trust that God sustains the household and property without hidden failure.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin.
Cross-references
- Psalms 121:7 The LORD will guard you from all evil; He will preserve your soul.
- Psalms 91:10 no evil will befall you, no plague will approach your tent.
- Job 8:6 if you are pure and upright, even now He will rouse Himself on your behalf and restore your righteous estate.
- Deuteronomy 28:6 You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.
- Isaiah 4:5 Then 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,
- Job 18:6 The light in his tent grows dark, and the lamp beside him goes out.
- Job 18:21 Surely such is the dwelling of the wicked and the place of one who does not know God.”
- Psalms 107:4 Some wandered in desert wastelands, finding no path to a city in which to dwell.
- Psalms 25:13 His soul will dwell in prosperity, and his descendants will inherit the land.
- 1 Samuel 30:3 When David and his men came to the city, they found it burned down and their wives and sons and daughters taken captive.