Job 4:7
Remember, I pray thee: who euer perished, being an innocent? or where were the vpright destroyed?
Geneva Bible 1599
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 this thy feare, thy confidence, thy pacience, and the vprightnesse of thy wayes?
8As I haue seene, they that plow iniquitie, and sowe wickednesse, reape the same.
Cross References
Job 9:22This is one point: therefore I said, Hee destroyeth the perfite and the wicked.
Psalms 37:25I haue beene yong, and am olde: yet I sawe neuer the righteous forsaken, nor his seede begging bread.
Ecclesiastes 9:1I have surely giuen mine heart to all this, and to declare all this, that the iust, and the wise, and their workes are in the hand of God: and no man knoweth eyther loue or hatred of all that is before them.
2 Peter 2:9The Lord knoweth to deliuer the godly out of tentation, and to reserue the vniust vnto the day of iudgement vnder punishment.
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 →