Job 4:7
Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous destroyed?
Leeser Tanakh
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 then thy fear of God still thy confidence, thy hope equal to the integrity of thy ways?
8Even as I have seen, that those who plough wrong-doing, and sow trouble, have to reap the same.
Cross References
Job 9:22One thing is [certain], therefore have I said it, The innocent and the wicked he bringeth to their end.
Psalms 37:25I have been young, and I am also grown old: yet have I never seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed seeking for bread.
Ecclesiastes 9:1For all this did I reflect over in my heart and to explain all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their services, are in the hand of God: that man knoweth neither love nor hatred; it is all [ordained] before them;
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 →