Job 4:7
Good News Translation
Think back now. Name a single case where someone righteous met with disaster.

New Revised Standard Version
“Think now, who that was innocent ever perished? Or where were the upright cut off?

Contemporary English Version
No truly innocent person has ever died young.

New American Bible
Reflect now, what innocent person perishes? Where are the upright destroyed?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished being innocent? or when were the just destroyed?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished being innocent? or when were the just destroyed?

who ever.

Job 9:22,23 One thing there is that I have spoken, both the innocent and the wicked he consumeth. . . .

Psalm 37:25 I have been young and now am old; and I have not seen the just forsaken, nor his seed seeking bread.

Ecclesiastes 7:15 These things also I saw in the days of my vanity: A just man perisheth in his justice, and a wicked man liveth a long time in his wickedness.

Ecclesiastes 9:1,2 All these things have I considered in my heart, that I might carefully understand them: there are just men and wise men, and their works are in the hand of God: and yet man knoweth not whether he be worthy of love, or hatred: . . .

Acts 28:4 And when the barbarians saw the beast hanging on his hand, they said one to another: Undoubtedly this man is a murderer, who, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance doth not suffer him to live.

2 Peter 2:9 The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly from temptation, but to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be tormented:

Context
Eliphaz: The Innocent Prosper
6Where is thy fear, thy fortitude, thy patience, and the perfection of thy ways? 7Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished being innocent? or when were the just destroyed?8On the contrary, I have seen those who work iniquity, and sow sorrows, and reap them,…
Cross References
Job 8:20
God will not cast away the simple, nor reach out his hand to the evil doer:

Job 36:6
But he saveth not the wicked, and he giveth judgment to the poor.

Job 36:7
He will not take away his eyes from the just, and he placeth kings on the throne for ever, and they are exalted.

Psalm 37:25
I have been young and now am old; and I have not seen the just forsaken, nor his seed seeking bread.

Job 4:6
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