Job 4:7
Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?
King James Version
In Context
6Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?
8Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
Cross References
Job 9:22This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
Psalms 37:25I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
Ecclesiastes 9:1For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them.
2 Peter 2:9The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
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 →