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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Eliphaz's First Response To Job
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Does your respect for God give you confidence and your lifetime of integrity give you 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 I am old, but I have never seen a righteous person abandoned or his descendants begging for food.
Job 8:20
Certainly God does not reject a blameless man or strengthen the hands of evildoers.
Job 9:22-23
It is all one thing. Therefore I say: God destroys the blameless and the wicked.
Job 36:7
He does not withdraw his eyes from the righteous. He enthrones them with kings and exalts them forever.
Ecclesiastes 7:15
I have seen all things in the days of my vanity. There is a just man who perished in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who prolonged his life in his wickedness.
Ecclesiastes 9:1-2
I considered all this in my heart and declared that the righteous and their works are in the hand of God. No man knows if love or hatred awaits him in the future.
Acts 28:4
The natives saw the snake hanging on Paul's hand and said to one another: This man must be a murderer, but Fate will not let him live, even though he escaped from the sea.
2 Peter 2:9
Jehovah knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to preserve the unrighteous for the Day of Judgment. (Psalm 34:19) (Matthew 25:46)