Job 4:7 Parallel Translations

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

KJV:

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

ASV:

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

BBE:

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

DBY:

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

ERV:

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

JPS:

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

WBS:

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

WEB:

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

YLT:

Remember, I pray thee, Who, being innocent, hath perished? And where have the upright been cut off?

Job 4:7 Cross References

XREF:

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)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

4:7 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.

WES:

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.

MHC:

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.

CONC:

Cut Destroyed Destruction God-fearing Innocent Perished Remember Righteous Upright

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

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