Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

"Consider, I pray thee: who ever perished being an innocent? Or, when were the godly 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?

Holman Bible

Consider: who has perished when he was innocent?
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?

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 Where is now thy fear of God, thy steadfastness, thy patience, and the perfectness of thy ways? 7 "Consider, I pray thee: who ever perished being an innocent? Or, when were the godly destroyed? 8 For, as I have proved by experience, they that plow iniquity and sow wretchedness, reap the same.

Cross References

Psalm 37:25

I have been young, and now am old; and yet saw I never the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging their bread.

Job 8:20

"Behold, God will not cast away a virtuous man, neither will he help the ungodly.

Job 9:22-23

"This one thing will I say: He destroyeth both the righteous and ungodly.

Job 36:7

He turneth not his eyes away from the righteous; he setteth up kings in their throne, and confirmeth them, so that they alway sit therein.

Ecclesiastes 7:15

These two things also have I considered in the time of vanity: that the just man perisheth for his righteousness' sake, and the ungodly liveth in his wickedness.

Ecclesiastes 9:1-2

For all these things purposed I in my mind to seek out. The righteous and wise, yea and their servants also are in the hand of God: and there is no man that knoweth either love or hate, but all things are before them.

Acts 28:4

When the men of the country saw the worm hang on his hand, they said among themselves, "This man must needs be a murderer: Whom, though he have escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live."

2 Peter 2:9

The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and how to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment for to be punished:

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