Job 4:7
Think about this, please: Who has ever perished when innocent? 1 Or when were the upright people ever cut off? 1
Unlocked Literal 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 your fear your confidence, 1 and the integrity of your ways your hope? 1
8According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity 1 and sow trouble reap it. 1
Cross References
Job 9:22It makes no difference, which is why I say 1 that he destroys blameless people and wicked people together. 1
Psalms 37:25I was young and now am old; 1 I have never seen the righteous person abandoned 1 or his children begging for bread. 1
Ecclesiastes 9:1For I thought about all this in my mind to understand about the righteous and wise people and their deeds. They are all in God's hands. No one knows whether love or hate will come to someone. 1
2 Peter 2:9The Lord knows how to rescue godly men out of trials, and how to hold unrighteous men for punishment at 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 →