Job 4:7

WEB

⁷“Remember, now, who ever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?

KJV

⁷Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?

BSB

⁷Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?

FBV

⁷Think about it: since when did the innocent die? Since when were good people destroyed?

Extra References

Psalms 37:25

²⁵I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.

Job 36:7

⁷He doesn’t withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne, he sets them forever, and they are exalted.

2 Peter 2:9

⁹then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,

Job 8:20

²⁰“Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man, neither will he uphold the evildoers.

Acts 28:4

⁴When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he has escaped from the sea, yet Justice has not allowed to live.”

Job 9:22-23

²²“It is all the same. Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked. ²³If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent.

¹For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; whether it is love or hatred, man doesn’t know it; all is before them. ²All things come alike to all. There is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, to the clean, to the unclean, to him who sacrifices, and to him who doesn’t sacrifice. As is the good, so is the sinner; he who takes an oath, as he who fears an oath.

Ecclesiastes 7:15

¹⁵All this I have seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who lives long in his evildoing.