Job 4:7
Think about it: since when did the innocent die? Since when were good people destroyed?
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?
In Context
6Wasn't it your reverence for God that gave you confidence and your integrity that gave you hope?
8From what I've seen it's those who plant evil and sow trouble who reap the same!
Cross References
Job 9:22That's why I say, ‘It makes no difference to God. He destroys both the innocent and the wicked.’
Psalms 37:25Once I was young, and now I've grown old, yet I've never seen those who do right abandoned, nor their children having to beg for bread.
Ecclesiastes 9:1I had my mind consider all this. Wise and good people and everything they do are in God's hands. Love or hate—who knows what will happen to them?
2 Peter 2:9As you can see, the Lord is able to rescue from their troubles those who respect him, and to keep the wicked until the day of judgment when their punishment is completed.
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 →