He doesn't preserve the life of the wicked, but gives to the afflicted their right.
Job 4:7 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) *Remember, now, whoever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? Or where were the righteous cut off? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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) Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off? Common English Bible Think! What innocent person has ever perished? When have those who do the right thing been destroyed? Catholic Public Domain Version Consider this, I beg you: who ever perished being innocent? Or when have the righteous been destroyed? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished being innocent? Or when were the just destroyed? |
He doesn't preserve the life of the wicked, but gives to the afflicted their right.
He doesn't withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne, he sets them forever, and they are exalted.
*Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man, neither will he uphold the evil-doers.
I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.
All this have I 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 evil-doing.
When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said one to another, *No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he has escaped from the sea, yet Justice has not allowed to live.*
the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment;