Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Remember, I pray thee, who [ever] perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?
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?
International Standard Version
Now please think: Who has ever perished when they're innocent? Where have the upright been destroyed?
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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Context Readings
Eliphaz's First Response To Job
6 Is not thy fear [of God] thy confidence, the integrity of thy ways thy hope? 7 Remember, I pray thee, who [ever] perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off? 8 According as I have seen, those who plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same.
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Cross References
Psalm 37:25
I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen a righteous man forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
Job 8:20
Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, nor will he uphold the evil-doers.
Job 9:22-23
It is all one thing. Therefore I say, He destroys the perfect and the wicked.
Job 36:7
He does not withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but he sets them forever with kings upon the throne, and they are exalted.
Ecclesiastes 7:15
All this I have seen in my days of vanity. There is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who prolongs [his life] in his evil-doing.
Ecclesiastes 9:1-2
For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God. No man understands, either love or hatred. All is before them.
Acts 28:4
And when the foreigners saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to each other, Certainly this man is a murderer, whom, though saved from the sea, Justice did not allow to live.
2 Peter 2:9
the Lord knows how to rescue the pious out of temptation, and to hold in reserve unrighteous men being cut off for a day of judgment.