Job 4:6
Good News Translation
You worshiped God, and your life was blameless; and so you should have confidence and hope.

New Revised Standard Version
Is not your fear of God your confidence, and the integrity of your ways your hope?

Contemporary English Version
You respect God and live right, so don't lose hope!

New American Bible
Is not your piety a source of confidence, and your integrity of life your hope?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Where is thy fear, thy fortitude, thy patience, and the perfection of thy ways?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

thy fear.

Job 1:1,9,10 There was a man in the land of Hus, whose name was Job, and that man was simple and upright, and fearing God, and avoiding evil. . . .

2 Kings 20:3 I beseech thee, O Lord, remember how I have walked before thee in truth, and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is pleasing before thee. And Ezechias wept with much weeping.

thy confidence.

Job 13:15 Although he should kill me, I will trust in him: but yet I will reprove my ways in his sight.

Proverbs 3:26 Do not withhold him from doing good, who is able: if thou art able, do good thyself also.

Proverbs 14:26 In the fear of the Lord is confidence of strength, and there shall be hope for his children.

thy hope.

Job 17:15 Where is now then my expectation, and who considereth my patience?

1 Peter 1:13,17 Wherefore, having the loins of your mind girt up, being sober, trust perfectly in the grace which is offered you in the revelation of Jesus Christ. . . .

the uprightness.

Job 1:8 And the Lord said to him: Hast thou considered my servant, Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a simple and upright man, and fearing God, and avoiding evil?

Job 16:17 These things have I suffered without the iniquity of my hand, when I offered pure prayers to God.

Job 23:11,12 My foot hath followed his steps, I have kept his way, and have not declined from it. . . .

Job 27:5,6 God forbid that I should judge you to be just: till I die I will not depart from my innocence. . . .

Job 29:12-17 Because I had delivered the poor man that cried out; and the fatherless, that had no helper. . . .

Job 31:1-40 I made a covenant with my eyes, that I would not so much as think upon a virgin. . . .

Context
Eliphaz: The Innocent Prosper
5But now the scourge is come upon thee, and thou faintest: It hath touched thee, and thou art troubled. 6Where is thy fear, thy fortitude, thy patience, and the perfection of thy ways?7Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished being innocent? or when were the just destroyed?…
Cross References
Job 1:1
There was a man in the land of Hus, whose name was Job, and that man was simple and upright, and fearing God, and avoiding evil.

Psalm 27:3
If armies in camp should stand together against me, my heart shall not fear. If a battle should rise up against me, in this will I be confident.

Proverbs 3:26
Do not withhold him from doing good, who is able: if thou art able, do good thyself also.

Job 4:5
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