Job 4:7
What does Job 4:7 mean?
A plain-English look at Job 4:7 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
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WEB
World English Bible · 2000Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?
KJV
King James Version · 1611Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Have you ever seen destruction come to an upright man? or when were the god-fearing ever cut off?
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862Remember, I pray thee, Who, being innocent, hath perished? And where have the upright been cut off?
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished being innocent? or when were the just destroyed?
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890Remember, I pray thee, who that was innocent has perished? and where were the upright cut off?
Context
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 36:7
He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: But with kings upon the throne He setteth them for ever, and they are exalted.
- Ecclesiastes 9:1
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; whether it be love or hatred, man knoweth it not; all is before them.
- Job 8:20
Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, Neither will he uphold the evil-doers.
- Psalms 37:25
I have been young, and now am old; Yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, Nor his seed begging bread.
- Acts 28:4
And when the barbarians saw the venomous creature hanging from his hand, they said one to another, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped from the sea, yet Justice hath not suffered to live.
- Ecclesiastes 7:15
All this have I seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his evil-doing.
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