Job 4:7
“Remember, now, who ever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?
World English Bible British
In The King James Version
Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?
In Context
6Isn’t your piety your confidence? Isn’t the integrity of your ways your hope?
8According to what I have seen, those who plough iniquity and sow trouble, reap the same.
Cross References
Job 9:22“It is all the same. Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked.
Psalms 37:25I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.
Ecclesiastes 9:1For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; whether it is love or hatred, man doesn’t know it; all is before them.
2 Peter 2:9then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgement,
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 →