Job 4:7
5 But now trouble has come upon you, and you are weary. It strikes you, and you are dismayed.
6 Is your reverence not your confidence, and the uprightness of your ways your hope?
Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?
8 As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.
9 By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of His anger they are consumed.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?
- KJV
- Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?
- WEB
- “Remember, now, who ever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?
- ASV
- Remember, I pray thee, who [ever] perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?
- DARBY
- Remember, I pray thee, who that was innocent has perished? and where were the upright cut off?
- BLB
- Remember please: Who [is] he [who has] perished being innocent? And where have the upright been cut off?
- ÅB
- Tenk etter: Hvem omkom uskyldig, og hvor gikk rettskafne til grunne?
- OTB
- "Tenk nå etter, hvem har noen gang gått til grunne uskyldig?
Eller hvor har de rettskafne blitt ødelagt? - B1930
- Tenk efter: Hvem omkom uskyldig, og hvor gikk rettskafne til grunne?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 37:25
I once was young and now am old, yet never have I seen the righteous abandoned or their children begging for bread.
Read in contextJob 36:7
He does not take His eyes off the righteous, but He enthrones them with kings and exalts them forever.
Read in context2 Peter 2:9
if all this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment.
Read in contextActs 28:4
When the islanders saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “Surely this man is a murderer. Although he was saved from the sea, Justice has not allowed him to live.”
Read in contextJob 8:20
Behold, God does not reject the blameless, nor will He strengthen the hand of evildoers.
Read in contextJob 9:22–23
It is all the same, and so I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’
Read in contextEcclesiastes 7:15
In my futile life I have seen both of these: A righteous man perishing in his righteousness, and a wicked man living long in his wickedness.
Read in contextEcclesiastes 9:1–2
So I took all this to heart and concluded that the righteous and the wise, as well as their deeds, are in God’s hands. Man does not know what lies ahead, whether love or hate.
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