Job 4:7

New English Translation

Call to mind now: Who, being innocent, ever perished? And where were upright people ever destroyed?

Cross References

Job 36:6

He does not allow the wicked to live, but he gives justice to the poor.

Job 36:7

He does not take his eyes off the righteous; but with kings on the throne he seats the righteous and exalts them forever.

Job 8:20

“Surely, God does not reject a blameless man, nor does he grasp the hand of the evildoers.

Psalm 37:25

I was once young, now I am old. I have never seen a godly man abandoned, or his children forced to search for food.

Ecclesiastes 7:15

During the days of my fleeting life I have seen both of these things: Sometimes a righteous person dies prematurely in spite of his righteousness, and sometimes a wicked person lives long in spite of his evil deeds.

Acts 28:4

When the local people saw the creature hanging from Paul’s hand, they said to one another, “No doubt this man is a murderer! Although he has escaped from the sea, Justice herself has not allowed him to live!”

2 Peter 2:9

– if so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from their trials, and to reserve the unrighteous for punishment at the day of judgment,