6 Should not your piety be your confidence and your blameless ways your hope?
6 Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?
6 Is not your fear of God
6 But shouldn't your devout life give you confidence now? Shouldn't your exemplary life give you hope?
6 Is not your reverence your confidence? And the integrity of your ways your hope?
6 Doesn't your reverence for God give you confidence? Doesn't your life of integrity give you hope?
11 Serve the Lord with fear and celebrate his rule with trembling.
11 Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
11 Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
11 Worship God in adoring embrace,
11 Serve the Lord with fear, And rejoice with trembling.
11 Serve the Lord with reverent fear, and rejoice with trembling.
(Read Psalm 2:10-12)
Whatever we rejoice in, in this world, it must always be with trembling, because of the uncertainty of all things in it. To welcome Jesus Christ, and to submit to him, is our wisdom and interest. Let him be very dear and precious; love him above all, love him in sincerity, love him much, as she did, to whom much was forgiven, and, in token of it, kissed his feet, Luke 7:38. And with a kiss of loyalty take this yoke upon you, and give up yourselves to be governed by his laws, disposed of by his providence, and entirely devoted to his cause. Unbelief is a sin against the remedy. It will be utter destruction to yourselves; lest ye perish in the way of your sins, and from the way of your vain hopes; lest your way perish, lest you prove to have missed the way of happiness. Christ is the way; take heed lest ye be cut off from Him as your way to God. They thought themselves in the way; but neglecting Christ, they perish from it. Blessed will those be in the day of wrath, who, by trusting in Christ, have made him their Refuge.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 4:6
Commentary on Job 4:1-6
(Read Job 4:1-6)
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 impatience. This we must keep in mind if we would understand what passed. Eliphaz speaks of Job, and his afflicted condition, with tenderness; but charges him with weakness and faint-heartedness. Men make few allowances for those who have taught others. Even pious friends will count that only a touch which we feel as a wound. Learn from hence to draw off the mind of a sufferer from brooding over the affliction, to look at the God of mercies in the affliction. And how can this be done so well as by looking to Christ Jesus, in whose unequalled sorrows every child of God soonest learns to forget his own?