Job 4:7
Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished being innocent? or when were the just destroyed?
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?
In Context
6Where is thy fear, thy fortitude, thy patience, and the perfection of thy ways?
8On the contrary I have seen those who work iniquity, and sow sorrows, and reap them,
Cross References
Job 9:22One thing there is that I have spoken, both the innocent and the wicked he consumeth.
Psalms 37:25I have been young, and now am old; and I have not seen the just forsaken, nor his seed seeking bread.
Ecclesiastes 9:1All these things have I considered in my heart, that I might carefully understand them: there are just men and wise men, and their works are in the hand of God: and yet man knoweth not whether he be worthy of love, or hatred:
2 Peter 2:9The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly from temptation, but to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be tormented.
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 →