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Endurance, Wisdom, and Genuine Faith
Job 13:15 has a Masoretic note: the written text (ketiv) reads lōʾ “not” (“He will slay me; I have no hope”), the reading tradition (qere) reads lô “for him” (“Though He slay me, I will hope in Him”). Most English versions follow the qere.
Job asks “When a man dies, will he live again?” and resolves to wait “until my renewal comes” (Job 14:14); he declares “in the end He will stand upon the earth” (Job 19:25). James: “the Lord’s coming is near” (Jas 5:8).
Job’s hope words include tiqwâ “hope” (Job 17:15) and yāḥal “wait, hope” (Job 13:15).
Hope looks past present loss to God’s final vindication.
Those who wait on the LORD renew their strength — hope expressed as waiting, as in Jas 5:7-8.
Suffering produces endurance, endurance character, character hope — the same chain logic as Jas 1:3-4.
Light, momentary affliction produces an eternal weight of glory.
Suffering interpreted within hope and future glory; Paul quotes Job (Job 5:13; 41:11).
Faith Counted as Righteousness and Righteousness Tested Through Suffering
Job 13:15 has a written text (ketiv) lōʾ, “not”, and a read text (qere) lô, “to Him”. The qere gives “Though He slay me, I will hope in Him”; the ketiv can be read “Behold, He will slay me; I have no hope”. The variant itself is textual data; which reading is original is debated.
Abraham “against all hope … in hope believed” (Rom 4:18); Job: “I know that my Redeemer lives” (Job 19:25).
See the ketiv/qere note on Job 13:15 in Original Language Analysis.
Hope rests on God’s character when circumstances give no grounds.
The NT reads both outcomes in light of future hope: the “outcome from the Lord” (Jas 5:11) and the heavenly city (Heb 11:16).
Against hope Abraham believed.
Abraham’s faith as hypostasis of hope.
Hypostasis → Faith → Parrhesia → Righteous Living → The Righteous
Heb 11:1: “substance/reality” (objective: faith gives present reality to what is hoped for) vs. “assurance/confidence” (subjective). Heb 3:14 favours “confidence” for many interpreters; Heb 1:3 clearly means “being, reality”. The choice in 11:1 is debated.
Faith is the hypostasis of things hoped for (Heb 11:1).
Same chapter: “hold firmly to the end our original hypostasis” (3:14) // “hold firmly to our parrhēsia and the hope we boast in” (3:6).
Hope looks past present evidence.
LXX renders “my hope” here with hypostasis (secondary, LXX not in app data).
תִּקְוָה tiq.vah H8615B hope; ἐλπίς elpis G1680 hope. Confident expectation of what God will do.
Heb 6:19; Heb 11:1.
Covenant, Kingship, and the Son of David
Futility, Judgment, and Hope
The Argument of Hebrews 10–11
Bold Speech, Refusal to Abandon the Truth, Direct Petition, and Confidence in Vindication
Job 13:15 has a ketiv lōʾ (“not”) and a qere lô (“to/in Him”). With the qere: “Though He slay me, I will hope in Him”; with the ketiv: “He will slay me; I have no hope — yet I will defend my ways to His face.” Both readings keep the bold second half.
“I know that I will be vindicated”; 1 John hopes for confidence “at His coming” and “on the day of judgment”.
Ketiv/qere variant; bold defence “to His face”.
תִּקְוָה tiq.vah H8615B hope; ἐλπίς elpis G1680 hope. tiqwâ: hope, expectation; elpis: confident expectation.
Job 14:7; Heb 6:19.