Job 4:7 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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 his children begging bread.

2 Peter 2:9

then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trial, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment,

Job 36:7

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

Acts 28:4

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

Job 8:20

“Behold, God will not reject a blameless man, nor take the hand of evildoers.

Ecclesiastes 7:15

In my vain life I have seen everything; there is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who prolongs his life in his evil-doing.

Job 36:6

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