He does not keep the wicked alive, but gives the afflicted their right.
Job 4:7 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional “Think now, who that was innocent ever perished? 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 does not keep the wicked alive, but gives the afflicted their right.
He does not withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne he sets them forever, and they are exalted.
“See, God will not reject a blameless person, nor take the hand of evildoers.
I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken or their children begging bread.
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.
When the natives 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.”
then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trial, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment