Job
Job 4:6–7
6Is your reverence not your confidence,
and the uprightness of your ways your hope?
7Consider now, I plead:
Who, being innocent, has ever perished?
Or where have the upright been destroyed?
Word by word
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Job 4:6
| English | Hebrew | Sounds like | Grammar | Word study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Is your reverence | יִ֭רְאָתְךָ | yir·’ā·ṯə·ḵā | Noun - feminine singular construct; second person masculine singular | H3374 fear |
| not | הֲלֹ֣א | hă·lō | Adverb - Negative particle | H3808 not |
| your confidence | כִּסְלָתֶ֑ךָ | kis·lā·ṯe·ḵā | Noun - feminine singular construct; second person masculine singular | H3690 stupidity |
| and the uprightness | וְתֹ֣ם | wə·ṯōm | Conjunctive waw; Noun - masculine singular construct | H8537 completeness, integrity |
| of your ways | דְּרָכֶֽיךָ׃ | də·rā·ḵe·ḵā | Noun - common plural construct; second person masculine singular | H1870 way, road, distance, journey, manner |
| your hope | תִּ֝קְוָתְךָ֗ | tiq·wā·ṯə·ḵā | Noun - feminine singular construct; second person masculine singular | H8615 cord |
Job 4:7
| English | Hebrew | Sounds like | Grammar | Word study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Consider | זְכָר־ | zə·ḵār- | Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular | H2142 remember |
| now | נָ֗א | nā | Interjection | H4994 I (we) pray, now |
| I plead | נָ֗א | nā | Interjection | H4994 I (we) pray, now |
| Who | מִ֤י | mî | Interrogative | H4310 who? |
| being innocent | נָקִ֣י | nā·qî | Adjective - masculine singular | H5355 clean, free from, exempt |
| has ever perished | אָבָ֑ד | ’ā·ḇāḏ | Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular | H6 perish |
| Or where | וְ֝אֵיפֹ֗ה | wə·’ê·p̄ōh | Conjunctive waw; Interrogative | H375 where? |
| have the upright | יְשָׁרִ֥ים | yə·šā·rîm | Adjective - masculine plural | H3477 straight, right |
| been destroyed | נִכְחָֽדוּ׃ | niḵ·ḥā·ḏū | Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person common plural | H3582 hide, efface |
Cross-references
Other passages that speak to the same thing. Point at one to read it.
Job 4:6 Proverbs 3:26 · Proverbs 14:26 · Job 1:1 · Job 17:15 · Job 23:11–12 · Job 16:17 · Job 13:15 · 2 Kings 20:3 · Job 29:12–17 · 1 Peter 1:13 · Job 1:8–10 · Job 27:5–6
Job 4:7 Psalm 37:25 · 2 Peter 2:9 · Job 36:7 · Acts 28:4 · Job 8:20 · Ecclesiastes 7:15 · Job 9:22–23 · Ecclesiastes 9:1–2
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Scripture text: Berean Standard Bible.