Job 4:6

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Job 4:4–8 · Berean Standard Bible

4 Your words have steadied those who stumbled; you have braced the knees that were buckling.

5 But now trouble has come upon you, and you are weary. It strikes you, and you are dismayed.

6 Is your reverence not your confidence, and the uprightness of your ways your hope?

7 Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?

8 As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.

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Job 1:1

There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. And this man was blameless and upright, fearing God and shunning evil.

Job 1:9

Satan answered the LORD, “Does Job fear God for nothing?

Job 1:10

Have You not placed a hedge on every side around him and his household and all that he owns? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.

2 Kings 20:3

“Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with wholehearted devotion; I have done what was good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

Job 13:15

Though He slay me, I will hope in Him. I will still defend my ways to His face.

Proverbs 3:26

for the LORD will be your confidence and will keep your foot from the snare.

Proverbs 14:26

He who fears the LORD is secure in confidence, and his children shall have a place of refuge.

Job 17:15

where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me?

1 Peter 1:13

Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober-minded. Set your hope fully on the grace to be given you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

1 Peter 1:17

Since you call on a Father who judges each one’s work impartially, conduct yourselves in reverent fear during your stay as foreigners.

Job 1:8

Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one on earth like him, a man who is blameless and upright, who fears God and shuns evil.”

Job 16:17

yet my hands are free of violence and my prayer is pure.

Job 23:11

My feet have followed in His tracks; I have kept His way without turning aside.

Job 23:12

I have not departed from the command of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my daily bread.

Job 27:5

I will never say that you are right; I will maintain my integrity until I die.

Job 27:6

I will cling to my righteousness and never let go. As long as I live, my conscience will not accuse me.

Job 29:12

because I rescued the poor who cried out and the fatherless who had no helper.

Job 29:13

The dying man blessed me, and I made the widow’s heart sing for joy.

Job 29:14

I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; justice was my robe and my turban.

Job 29:15

I served as eyes to the blind and as feet to the lame.

Job 29:16

I was a father to the needy, and I took up the case of the stranger.

Job 29:17

I shattered the fangs of the unjust and snatched the prey from his teeth.

Job 31:1

“I have made a covenant with my eyes. How then could I gaze with desire at a virgin?

Job 31:2

For what is the allotment of God from above, or the heritage from the Almighty on high?

Job 31:3

Does not disaster come to the unjust and calamity to the workers of iniquity?

Job 31:4

Does He not see my ways and count my every step?

Job 31:5

If I have walked in falsehood or my foot has rushed to deceit,

Job 31:6

let God weigh me with honest scales, that He may know my integrity.

Job 31:7

If my steps have turned from the path, if my heart has followed my eyes, or if impurity has stuck to my hands,

Job 31:8

then may another eat what I have sown, and may my crops be uprooted.

Job 31:9

If my heart has been enticed by my neighbor’s wife, or I have lurked at his door,

Job 31:10

then may my own wife grind grain for another, and may other men sleep with her.

Job 31:11

For that would be a heinous crime, an iniquity to be judged.

Job 31:12

For it is a fire that burns down to Abaddon; it would root out my entire harvest.

Job 31:13

If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or maidservant when they made a complaint against me,

Job 31:14

what will I do when God rises to judge? How will I answer when called to account?

Job 31:15

Did not He who made me in the womb also make them? Did not the same One form us in the womb?

Job 31:16

If I have denied the desires of the poor or allowed the widow’s eyes to fail,

Job 31:17

if I have eaten my morsel alone, not sharing it with the fatherless—

Job 31:18

though from my youth I reared him as would a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow—

Job 31:19

if I have seen one perish for lack of clothing, or a needy man without a cloak,

Job 31:20

if his heart has not blessed me for warming him with the fleece of my sheep,

Job 31:21

if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless because I saw that I had support in the gate,

Job 31:22

then may my arm fall from my shoulder and be torn from its socket.

Job 31:23

For calamity from God terrifies me, and His splendor I cannot overpower.

Job 31:24

If I have put my trust in gold or called pure gold my security,

Job 31:25

if I have rejoiced in my great wealth because my hand had gained so much,

Job 31:26

if I have beheld the sun in its radiance or the moon moving in splendor,

Job 31:27

so that my heart was secretly enticed and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth,

Job 31:28

this would also be an iniquity to be judged, for I would have denied God on high.

Job 31:29

If I have rejoiced in my enemy’s ruin, or exulted when evil befell him—

Job 31:30

I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking for his life with a curse—

Job 31:31

if the men of my house have not said, ‘Who is there who has not had his fill?’—

Job 31:32

but no stranger had to lodge on the street, for my door has been open to the traveler—

Job 31:33

if I have covered my transgressions like Adam by hiding my guilt in my heart,

Job 31:34

because I greatly feared the crowds and the contempt of the clans terrified me, so that I kept silent and would not go outside—

Job 31:35

(Oh, that I had one to hear me! Here is my signature. Let the Almighty answer me; let my accuser compose an indictment.

Job 31:36

Surely I would carry it on my shoulder and wear it like a crown.

Job 31:37

I would give account of all my steps; I would approach Him like a prince.)—

Job 31:38

if my land cries out against me and its furrows weep together,

Job 31:39

if I have devoured its produce without payment or broken the spirit of its tenants,

Job 31:40

then let briers grow instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley.” Thus conclude the words of Job.