Job 4:7
Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?
In Context
6Is your reverence not your confidence, and the uprightness of your ways your hope?
8As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.
Cross References
Job 9:22It is all the same, and so I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’
Psalms 37:25I once was young and now am old, yet never have I seen the righteous abandoned or their children begging for bread.
Ecclesiastes 9:1So I took all this to heart and concluded that the righteous and the wise, as well as their deeds, are in God’s hands. Man does not know what lies ahead, whether love or hate.
2 Peter 2:9if all this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on 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 →