Parallel Verses
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?
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
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Is not your fear of God your confidence, and the integrity of your ways your hope?
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Or where were the upright destroyed?
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Cross References
Psalm 37:25
I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken or his children begging for bread.
Job 8:20
"Behold, God will not reject a blameless man, nor take the hand of evildoers.
Job 9:22-23
It is all one; therefore I say, He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.
Job 36:7
He does not withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne he sets them forever, and they are exalted.
Ecclesiastes 7:15
In my vain life I have seen everything. There is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who prolongs his life in his evildoing.
Ecclesiastes 9:1-2
But all this I laid to heart, examining it all, how the righteous and the wise and their deeds are in the hand of God. Whether it is love or hate, man does not know; both are before him.
Acts 28:4
When the native people saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, "No doubt this man is a murderer. Though he has escaped from the sea, Justice has not allowed him to live."
2 Peter 2:9
then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment,