Job 4:7 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁷ “Think now, who that was innocent ever perished? Or where were the upright cut off?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ Think [earnestly], I beg of you: who, being innocent, ever perished? Or where were those upright and in right standing with God cut off?

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

⁷ Think! What innocent person has ever perished? When have those who do the right thing been destroyed?

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ Consider this, I beg you: who ever perished being innocent? Or when have the righteous been destroyed?

Job 4:7 Cross References

Psalm 37:25

I have been young and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken or their children begging bread.

2 Peter 2:9

then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trial and to keep the unrighteous until the day of judgment, when they will be punished

Job 36:7

He does not withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne he sets them forever, and they are exalted.

Acts 28:4

When the local people saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “This man must be a murderer; though he has escaped from the sea, Justice has not allowed him to live.”

Job 8:20

“See, God will not reject the blameless, nor take the hand of evildoers.

Ecclesiastes 7:15

In my vain life I have seen everything; there are righteous people who perish in their righteousness, and there are wicked people who prolong their life in their evildoing.

Job 36:6

He does not keep the wicked alive but gives the afflicted their right.