Job 4:7
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New International Version (©1984)
"Consider now: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Where were the upright ever destroyed?

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"Remember now, who ever perished being innocent? Or where were the upright destroyed?

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
"Now think about this: Which innocent person [ever] died [an untimely death]? Find me a decent person who has been destroyed.

King James Bible
Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?

American King James Version
Remember, I pray you, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?

American Standard Version
Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?

Bible in Basic English
Have you ever seen destruction come to an upright man? or when were the god-fearing ever cut off?

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

Darby Bible Translation
Remember, I pray thee, who that was innocent has perished? and where were the upright cut off?

English Revised Version
Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the upright cut off?

Webster's Bible Translation
Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off;

World English Bible
"Remember, now, whoever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?

Young's Literal Translation
Remember, I pray thee, Who, being innocent, hath perished? And where have the upright been cut off?

Geneva Study Bible

Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being {d} innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?

(d) He concludes that Job was reproved seeing that God handles him so extremely, which is the argument that the carnal men make against the children of God.

Wesley's Notes

4:7 Innocent - Therefore thou art guilty of some great, though secret crimes, and thy sin hath now found thee out. Cut off - By the sickle of Divine vengeance before his time, which is like to be thy case. Eliphaz here advances another argument to prove Job an hypocrite; taken not only from his impatience under afflictions, but from his afflictions themselves.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

4:7-11 Eliphaz argues, 1. That good men were never thus ruined. But there is one event both to the righteous and to the wicked, Ec 9:2, both in life and death; the great and certain difference is after death. Our worst mistakes are occasioned by drawing wrong views from undeniable truths. 2. That wicked men were often thus ruined: for the proof of this, Eliphaz vouches his own observation. We may see the same every day.


Job 8:20 "Lo, God will not reject a man of integrity, Nor will He support the evildoers.
Job 36:6 "He does not keep the wicked alive, But gives justice to the afflicted.
Job 36:7 "He does not withdraw His eyes from the righteous; But with kings on the throne He has seated them forever, and they are exalted.
Psalm 37:25 I have been young and now I am old, Yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken Or his descendants begging bread. (NASB ©1995)

Consider Cut Destroyed Destruction God-Fearing Innocent Perished Remember Righteous Think Upright


Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?

who ever. 9:22,23 Ps 37:25 Ec 7:15 9:1,2 Ac 28:4 2Pe 2:9

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