Job 4:7

Job 4:7 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?
• New International Version (NIV)“Consider now: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Where were the upright ever destroyed?
• English Standard Version (ESV)"Remember: who that was innocent ever perished? Or where were the upright cut off?
• New King James Version (NKJV)“Remember now, who ever perished being innocent? Or where were the upright ever cut off?

Context of Job 4:7

5But now adversity comes upon you, and you are impatient and intolerant; It touches you, and you are horrified. 6Is not your fear of God your confidence, And [is not] the integrity and uprightness of your ways your hope? “Remember now, who, being innocent, ever perished? Or where [and in what circumstances] were those upright and in right standing with God destroyed? 8As I have seen, those who plow wickedness And those who sow trouble and harm harvest it. 9By the breath of God they perish, And by the blast of His anger they are consumed.

Job 4:7 word by word

זְכָר־נָ֗א מִ֤י ה֣וּא נָקִ֣י אָבָ֑ד וְ֝אֵיפֹ֗ה יְשָׁרִ֥ים נִכְחָֽדוּ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Rememberזָכַרzâkar · to rememberH2142
• perishedאָבַד'âbad · to perishH6
• being innocentנָקִיnâqîy nâqîy' · innocentH5355
• or whereאֵיפֹה'êyphôh · where?H375
• were the righteousיָשָׁרyâshâr · uprightH3477
• cut offכָּחַדkâchad · to hideH3582

Cross-references for Job 4:7

• Job 9:22It is all one; therefore I say, ‘He destroys [both] the blameless and the wicked.’
• Psalms 37:25I have been young and now I am old, Yet I have not seen the righteous (those in right standing with God) abandoned Or his descendants pleading for bread.
• Ecclesiastes 7:15I have seen everything during my [fleeting] days of futility; there is a righteous man who perishes in [spite of] his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who lives a long life in [spite of] his wickedness.
• Ecclesiastes 9:1For I have taken all this to heart, exploring and examining it all, how the righteous (those in right standing with God) and the wise and their deeds are in the hands of God. No man knows whether it will be love or hatred; anything awaits him.
• Acts 28:4When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they began saying to one another, “Undoubtedly this man is a murderer, and though he has been saved from the sea, Justice [the avenging goddess] has not permitted him to live.”
• 2 Peter 2:9then [in light of the fact that all this is true, be sure that] the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trial, and how to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment,

Commentaries on Job 4:7

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 7Remember, I pray thee - Recollect, if thou canst, a single instance where God abandoned an innocent man, or suffered him to perish. Didst thou ever hear of a case in which God abandoned a righteous man to destruction? Wert thou a righteous man, and innocent of all hidden crimes, would God abandon thee thus to the malice of Satan? or let loose the plagues of affliction and adversity against thee?Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 7Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? - The object of this question is manifestly to show to Job the inconsistency of the feelings which he had evinced. He claimed to be a righteous man. He had instructed and counselled many others. He had professed confidence in God, and in the integrity of his own ways. It was to have been expected that one with such pretensions would have evinced resignation in the time of trial, and would have been…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 7-11Verses 7-11 Eliphaz argues, 1. That good men were never thus ruined. But there is one event both to the righteous and to the wicked, Ec 9:2, both in life and death; the great and certain difference is after death. Our worst mistakes are occasioned by drawing wrong views from undeniable truths. 2. That wicked men were often thus ruined: for the proof of this, Eliphaz vouches his own observation. We may see the same every day.Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 7Job probably considered his children among the innocent who died (1:5). Even Eliphaz must have known that people sometimes "shed innocent blood" (compare Deuteronomy 19:10; Proverbs 6:17; Jeremiah 7:6).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-211. Eliphaz--the mildest of Job's three accusers. The greatness of Job's calamities, his complaints against God, and the opinion that calamities are proofs of guilt, led the three to doubt Job's integrity.Read the comment

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Commentaries on Job 4

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings