Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

Consider: who has perished when he was innocent?
Where have the honest been destroyed?

New American Standard Bible

“Remember now, who ever perished being innocent?
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?

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?

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
נקיא נקי 
Naqiy 
Usage: 43

or where
איפה 
'eyphoh 
Usage: 11

Context Readings

Eliphaz's First Response To Job

6 Isn’t your piety your confidence,
and the integrity of your life your hope?
7 Consider: who has perished when he was innocent?
Where have the honest been destroyed?
8 In my experience, those who plow injustice
and those who sow trouble reap the same.



Cross References

Psalm 37:25

I have been young and now I am old,
yet I have not seen the righteous abandoned
or his children begging for bread.

Job 8:20

Look, God does not reject a person of integrity,
and He will not support evildoers.

Job 9:22-23

It is all the same. Therefore I say,
“He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.”

Job 36:7

He does not remove His gaze from the righteous,
but He seats them forever with enthroned kings,
and they are exalted.

Ecclesiastes 7:15

In my futile life I have seen everything: there is a righteous man who perishes in spite of his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who lives long in spite of his evil.

Ecclesiastes 9:1-2

Indeed, I took all this to heart and explained it all: the righteous, the wise, and their works are in God’s hands.People don’t know whether to expect love or hate. Everything lies ahead of them.

Acts 28:4

When the local people saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “This man is probably a murderer, and though he has escaped the sea, Justice does not allow 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,

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