Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
Now please think: Who has ever perished when they're innocent? Where have the upright been destroyed?
New American Standard Bible
Or where were the upright destroyed?
King James Version
Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?
Holman Bible
Where have the honest been destroyed?
A Conservative Version
Remember, I pray thee, who [ever] perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?
American Standard Version
Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?
Amplified
“Remember now, who, being innocent, ever perished?
Or where [and in what circumstances] were those upright and in right standing with God destroyed?
Bible in Basic English
Have you ever seen destruction come to an upright man? or when were the god-fearing ever cut off?
Darby Translation
Remember, I pray thee, who that was innocent has perished? and where were the upright cut off?
Julia Smith Translation
Remember now, who perished, he being innocent? and where were the upright cut off?
King James 2000
Remember, I pray you, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?
Lexham Expanded Bible
"{Think} now, who has perished [who is] innocent? Or where [are] the upright destroyed?
Modern King James verseion
Remember, please, who ever perished, being innocent? Or where were the righteous cut off?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
"Consider, I pray thee: who ever perished being an innocent? Or, when were the godly destroyed?
NET Bible
Call to mind now: Who, being innocent, ever perished? And where were upright people ever destroyed?
New Heart English Bible
"Remember, now, whoever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?
The Emphasized Bible
Remember, I pray thee, who, being innocent, hath perished, or when, the upright, have been cut off.
Webster
Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off;
World English Bible
"Remember, now, whoever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?
Youngs Literal Translation
Remember, I pray thee, Who, being innocent, hath perished? And where have the upright been cut off?
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 4:7
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Eliphaz's First Response To Job
6 "Your fear of God has been your confidence, hasn't it? The integrity of your life has been your hope, hasn't it? 7 Now please think: Who has ever perished when they're innocent? Where have the upright been destroyed? 8 It's been my experience that those who plow the soil of iniquity and those who sow the seed of trouble will reap their harvest!
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Cross References
Psalm 37:25
I once was young and now I am old, but I have not seen a righteous person forsaken or his descendants begging for bread.
Job 8:20
Surely God won't reject those who are blameless or hold hands with those who practice evil.
Job 9:22-23
I say it's all the same he destroys both the blameless and the guilty.
Job 36:7
He won't stop looking at righteous people; he seats them on thrones with kings forever, and they are exalted.
Ecclesiastes 7:15
I have seen it all during my pointless life: both a righteous person who dies while he is righteous, and a wicked person who lives to an old age, while remaining wicked.
Ecclesiastes 9:1-2
In light of all of this, I committed myself to explain it this way: the righteous and the wise, along with everything they do, are in the hands of God. Furthermore, as to love and hate, no human being knows everything concerning them.
Acts 28:4
When the people who lived there saw the snake hanging from his hand, they told one another, "This man must be a murderer! He may have escaped from the sea, but Justice won't let him live."
2 Peter 2:9
then the Lord knows how to rescue godly people from their trials and to hold unrighteous people for punishment on the day of judgment,