Job 4:7
Remember, I pray thee, who [ever] perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?
American Standard Version
In The King James Version
Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?
In Context
6Is not thy fear [of God] thy confidence, [And] the integrity of thy ways thy hope?
8According as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, And sow trouble, reap the same.
Cross References
Job 9:22It is all one; therefore I say, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
Psalms 37:25I have been young, and now am old; Yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, Nor his seed begging bread.
Ecclesiastes 9:1For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; whether it be love or hatred, man knoweth it not; all is before them.
2 Peter 2:9the Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment unto the day of judgment;
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 →