Job 4:7
Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the upright cut off?
Revised Version 1895
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 confidence, and thy hope the integrity of thy ways?
8According as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same.
Cross References
Job 9:22It is all one; therefore I say, 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 their 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 be love or hatred, man knoweth it not; all is before them.
2 Peter 2:9the Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment unto 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 →