Job 4:7
Remember, I pray thee, Who, being innocent, hath perished? And where have the upright been cut off?
Young's Literal Translation
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 reverence thy confidence? Thy hope — the perfection of thy ways?
8As I have seen — ploughers of iniquity, And sowers of misery, reap it!
Cross References
Job 9:22It is the same thing, therefore I said, 'The perfect and the wicked He is consuming.'
Psalms 37:25Young I have been, I have also become old, And I have not seen the righteous forsaken, And his seed seeking bread.
Ecclesiastes 9:1But all this I have laid unto my heart, so as to clear up the whole of this, that the righteous and the wise, and their works, [are] in the hand of God, neither love nor hatred doth man know, the whole [is] before them.
2 Peter 2:9The Lord hath known to rescue pious ones out of temptation, and unrighteous ones to a day of judgment, being punished, to keep,
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 →