Job 4:6 Cross References - EJ2000

⁶ Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the integrity of thy ways?

³ I beseech thee, O LORD, remember how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept with great weeping.

¹ ¶ There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God and departed from evil.

⁸ And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my slave Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that fears God and has departed from evil? ⁹ Then Satan answered the LORD and said, Does Job fear God for nothing? ¹⁰ Hast thou not made a hedge about him and about his house and about all that he has on every side? Thou hast blessed the work of his hands; therefore, his substance has increased in the land.

¹⁵ Though he slay me, yet I will trust in him; but I will defend my ways before him.

¹⁷ ¶ even though there is no injustice in my hands, and my prayer has been pure.

¹⁵ And where shall my hope be now? As for my hope, who shall see it?

¹¹ My feet have held to his steps, I have kept his way, and have not departed. ¹² Neither have I separated myself from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

⁵ In no wise should I justify you; until I die I will not remove my integrity from me. ⁶ I hold fast to my righteousness and will not let it go; my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.

¹² because I delivered the poor that cried and the fatherless who had no one to help him. ¹³ The blessing of the one that was ready to perish came upon me; and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy. ¹⁴ I put on righteousness, and it clothed me as a robe; and my diadem was judgment. ¹⁵ I was eyes to the blind and feet to the lame. ¹⁶ I was a father to the needy; and the cause which I did not know I searched out. ¹⁷ And I broke the fangs of the wicked and caused their teeth to release the prey.

¹ ¶ I made a covenant with my eyes; why then should I look upon a maid? ² For what reward would God give me from above and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high? ³ Is there no destruction for the wicked? And banishment for the workers of iniquity? ⁴ Does he not see my ways and count all my steps? ⁵ If I have walked with falsehood or if my foot has hastened to deceit, ⁶ let me be weighed in a just balance, that God may know my integrity. ⁷ If my step has turned out of the way and my heart walked after my eyes and if any blot has cleaved to my hands, ⁸ then let me sow, and let another eat, and let my offspring be rooted out. ⁹ ¶ If my heart has been deceived regarding a woman, or if I have laid in wait at my neighbour’s door, ¹⁰ then let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down upon her. ¹¹ For this is lewdness and iniquity that is proven. ¹² For it is a fire that consumes unto hell and would root out all my increase. ¹³ If I had despised the right of my manslave or of my maidslave, when they contended with me; ¹⁴ what then would I do when God rises up? And when he visits, what would I answer him? ¹⁵ Did not he that made me in the belly also make him? And did not the same one fashion us in the womb? ¹⁶ ¶ If I have disturbed the desire of the poor or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail; ¹⁷ or have eaten my morsel alone and the fatherless has not eaten thereof; ¹⁸ (for from my youth the fatherless was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided the widow from my mother’s womb) ¹⁹ if I have seen any perish for want of clothing or any needy without a covering; ²⁰ if his loins have not blessed me and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep; ²¹ if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, even when I saw that they would all help me in the gate; ²² then let my back fall from my shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from its joint. ²³ For I feared destruction from God, against whose highness I could have no power. ²⁴ ¶ If I have made gold my hope or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence; ²⁵ if I rejoiced because my wealth was being multiplied, and because my hand had gotten much; ²⁶ if I beheld the sun when it shone or the moon walking in beauty; ²⁷ and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my mouth kissed my hand; ²⁸ this would also be a proven iniquity; for I should have denied the God that is sovereign. ²⁹ If I rejoiced at the destruction of the one that hated me or lifted up myself when evil found him; ³⁰ for I have never even suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse upon his soul; ³¹ when the servants of my tent said, Oh that we had of his flesh! We would never be satisfied. ³² The stranger did not lodge in the street, but I opened my doors to the traveller. ³³ ¶ If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom; ³⁴ if I feared a great multitude or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and did not go out of the door? ³⁵ Oh that someone would hear me! Behold, my mark is, that the Almighty will testify for me, even though my adversary had written down the charges. ³⁶ Surely I would take it upon my shoulder and bind it as a crown to me. ³⁷ I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince I would go near unto him. ³⁸ If my land cries against me and all its furrows likewise complain; ³⁹ if I ate of its strength without money or have afflicted the soul of its owners; ⁴⁰ let thistles grow up unto me instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.

²⁶ For the LORD shall be thy confidence and shall keep thy foot from being taken.

²⁶ ¶ In the fear of the LORD is strong confidence, and there his sons shall have hope.

¹³ ¶ Therefore, having the loins of your understanding girded with temperance, wait perfectly in the grace that is presented unto you when Jesus, the Christ, is manifested unto you,

¹⁷ And if ye invoke as Father, he who without respect of persons judges according to the work of each one, converse in fear the entire time of your sojourning here,