Job 4:7
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?”
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“Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?”
King James Version · Public Domain“Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Remember, I pray thee, Who, being innocent, hath perished? And where have the upright been cut off?”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 4:7 — 8 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 8:20Behold, God does not reject the blameless, nor will He strengthen the hand of evildoers.
- Job 9:22It is all the same, and so I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’
- Job 36:7He does not take His eyes off the righteous, but He enthrones them with kings and exalts them forever.
- Psalms 37:25I once was young and now am old, yet never have I seen the righteous abandoned or their children begging for bread.
- Ecclesiastes 7:15In 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.
- Ecclesiastes 9:1So 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.
- Acts 28:4When 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.”
- 2 Peter 2:9if 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.
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