Job 4:7
Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished being innocent? Or where have the righteous been cut off?
Noyes 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 not thy fear of God thy hope, And the uprightness of thy ways thy confidence?
8According to what I have seen, they who plough iniquity, And sow mischief, reap the same.
Cross References
Job 9:22It is all one; therefore I will affirm, He destroyeth the righteous and the wicked alike.
Psalms 37:25I have been young, and now am old; Yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, Nor his offspring begging bread.
Ecclesiastes 9:1For I gave my mind to all this, even to search out all this, that the righteous and the wise and their works are in the hand of God, and yet neither his love nor hatred doth any man know. All is before them.
2 Peter 2:9the Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to reserve the unrighteous under punishment 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 →