Job 4:7
Now remember, || Who, being innocent, has perished? And where have the upright been cut off?
Literal 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 your reverence not your confidence? Your hope—the perfection of your ways?
8As I have seen—plowers of iniquity, || And sowers of misery, reap it!
Cross References
Job 9:22It is the same thing, therefore I said, || He is consuming the perfect and the wicked.
Psalms 37:25I have been young, || I have also become old, || And I have not seen the righteous forsaken, || And his seed seeking bread.
Ecclesiastes 9:1But all this I have laid to my heart, so as to clear up the whole of this, that the righteous and the wise, and their works, [are] in the hand of God, neither love nor hatred does man know, the whole [is] before them.
2 Peter 2:9the LORD has known to rescue [the] pious out of temptation, and to keep [the] unrighteous being punished to [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 →