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Isn`t your piety your confidence, The integrity of your ways your hope?
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A Friend's Sharp Question
Eliphaz challenges Job by asking if his renowned fear of God and integrity should not be the very source of his confidence and hope. Commentators note this is a rhetorical question designed to highlight the apparent contradiction between Job's reputation for piety and his current state of despair. It essentially asks, "If your faith is real, why are you falling apart?"
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Is not this your fear, your confidence? - There has been considerable variety in the interpretation of this verse. Dr. Good renders it:
19th Century
Anglican
Is not this thy fear, thy confidence ...? —The meaning seems to be, “Should not your fear or piety be your confidence, and the uprightness…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
[Is] not [this] your fear The fear of God, that which is of him, comes from him, is a grace of his implanted in the …
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Satan undertook to prove Job a hypocrite by afflicting him; and his friends concluded him to be one because he was so afflicted and showed impatien…
13th Century
Catholic
Job's friends, who came to console him, had kept silent until now because of the severity of his pain. After Job finished speaking, they boldly beg…
