Job 4:7

In 11 translations

BSB

Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?

KJV

Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?

WEB

“Remember, now, who ever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?

ASV

Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?

LSV

Now remember, || Who, being innocent, has perished? And where have the upright been cut off?

YLT

Remember, I pray thee, Who, being innocent, hath perished? And where have the upright been cut off?

DBY

Remember, I pray thee, who that was innocent has perished? and where were the upright cut off?

DRC

Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished being innocent? or when were the just destroyed?

GNV

Remember, I pray thee: who euer perished, being an innocent? or where were the vpright destroyed?

JPS

Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?

LXXE

Remember then who has perished, being pure? or when were the true-hearted utterly destroyed?

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Original-language editions

WLC

זְכָר־נָ֗א מִ֤י ה֣וּא נָקִ֣י אָבָ֑ד וְ֝אֵיפֹ֗ה יְשָׁרִ֥ים נִכְחָֽדוּ׃

LXX-Br

Μνήσθητι οὖν, τίς καθαρὸς ὢν ἀπώλετο, ἢ πότε ἀληθινοὶ ὁλόῤῥιζοι ἀπώλοντο;

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• Psalms 37:25I once was young and now am old, yet never have I seen the righteous abandoned or their children begging for bread.
• Job 36:7He does not take His eyes off the righteous, but He enthrones them with kings and exalts them forever.
• 2 Peter 2:9if all this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment.
• Job 8:20Behold, God does not reject the blameless, nor will He strengthen the hand of evildoers.
• Acts 28:4When the islanders saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “Surely this man is a murderer. Although he was saved from the sea, Justice has not allowed him to live.”
• Job 9:22–23It is all the same, and so I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’ When the scourge brings sudden death, He mocks the despair of the innocent.
• Ecclesiastes 9:1–2So I took all this to heart and concluded that the righteous and the wise, as well as their deeds, are in God’s hands. Man does not know what lies ahead, whether love or hate. It is the same for all: There is a common…
• Ecclesiastes 7:15In my futile life I have seen both of these: A righteous man perishing in his righteousness, and a wicked man living long in his wickedness.

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