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Job 4:7
7Think about this: People who are not guilty of sin do not suddenly die. God does not destroy people who do good things.
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 you are the person who has trouble. You yourself are not patient. Trouble has come to you and you feel afraid. 6But you respect God's authority, so you should trust him. You live in an honest way, so you should still hope for better things. Think about this: People who are not guilty of sin do not suddenly die. God does not destroy people who do good things. 8I will tell you what I have seen. Trouble comes to people who do wicked things. They receive the punishment that they deserve. 9God destroys them with his breath. His anger is like a storm that blows them away.
Read all of Job 4Job 4:7 word by word
זְכָר־נָ֗א מִ֤י ה֣וּא נָקִ֣י אָבָ֑ד וְ֝אֵיפֹ֗ה יְשָׁרִ֥ים נִכְחָֽדוּ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 4:7
- Job 9:22The same thing happens to good people and to wicked people. So I say, “God destroys people who are not guilty as well as those who are guilty.”
- Psalms 37:25I was young once and now I am old. But in all my life, I have never seen any good man that God has left alone. I have not seen his children so hungry that they ask people for food.
- Ecclesiastes 7:15In my short life on the earth I have seen these things which have no purpose: Sometimes righteous people may die when they are still young. They did good things, but they died. And sometimes wicked people continue to live for along time. They did evil things, but they continued to live.
- Ecclesiastes 9:1I thought about all these things so that I could understand them. I realized that God controls what happens to people. That includes righteous people and wise people. God decides the things that they do. Nobody knows what will happen in their lives. Other people may love them, or they may hate them.
- Acts 28:4The people who lived on the island saw the snake. They saw that it was hanging from Paul's hand. So they said to each other, ‘We know now that this man murdered someone. He did not die in the sea but now the snake will kill him. The god who punishes people for the bad things that they do will not let him live.’
- 2 Peter 2:9We know that the Lord God has done all these things in past times. He knows how to save people who respect him from their troubles. But he will continue to punish the people who refuse to obey him. He will keep them until the day when he will judge them.
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
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