Job 4:7
Remember, I pray thee, who that was innocent has perished? and where were the upright cut off?
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?
In Context
6Hath not thy piety been thy confidence, and the perfection of thy ways thy hope?
8Even as I have seen, they that plough iniquity and sow mischief, reap the same.
Cross References
Job 9:22It is all one; therefore I said, he destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
Psalms 37:25I have been young, and now am old, and I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed seeking bread:
Ecclesiastes 9:1For all this I laid to my heart and [indeed] to investigate all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; man knoweth neither love nor hatred: all is before them.
2 Peter 2:9[the] Lord knows [how] to deliver the godly out of trial, and to keep [the] unjust to [the] day of judgment [to be] punished;
Matthew Henry on Job 4:2-7
The Address of Eliphaz. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, 2 If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking? 3 Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands. 4 Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees. 5 But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled. 6 Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the… Read the whole commentary →