Job 4:6

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

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BSBPD

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

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

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

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Is not thy fear of God thy confidence, Andthe integrity of thy ways thy hope?”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“Is not thy reverence thy confidence? Thy hope--the perfection of thy ways?”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Job 4:6 — 16 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Job 1:8Then 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.”
  4. Job 13:15Though He slay me, I will hope in Him. I will still defend my ways to His face.
  5. Job 16:17yet my hands are free of violence and my prayer is pure.
  6. Job 17:15where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me?
  7. Job 23:11My feet have followed in His tracks; I have kept His way without turning aside.
  8. Job 27:5I will never say that you are right; I will maintain my integrity until I die.
  9. Job 29:12because I rescued the poor who cried out and the fatherless who had no helper.
  10. Job 31:1“I have made a covenant with my eyes. How then could I gaze with desire at a virgin?
  11. Psalms 26:1Vindicate me, O LORD! For I have walked with integrity; I have trusted in the LORD without wavering.
  12. Proverbs 3:26for the LORD will be your confidence and will keep your foot from the snare.
  13. Proverbs 14:26He who fears the LORD is secure in confidence, and his children shall have a place of refuge.
  14. Isaiah 33:6He will be the sure foundation for your times, a storehouse of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge. The fear of the LORD is Zion’s treasure.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.

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