The Pulpit Commentary on Job 4:6

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways? Translate, with the Revised Version, Is not thy fear of God thy confidence' and thy hope the integrity of thy ways? The verse is composed, as usual, of two clauses, balancing each other; and the meaning seems to be that, if Job is as convinced of his piety and uprightness as he professes to be, he ought still to maintain confidence in God, and a full expectation of deliverance from his troubles.

If he does not, what is the natural inference? Surely, that he is not so confident of his innocence as he professes to be.

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