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Job 4:7

Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?

KJV

Recordare, obsecro te, quis umquam innocens periit ? aut quando recti deleti sunt ?

Vulgate

μνήσθητι οὖν τίς καθαρὸς ὢν ἀπώλετο, ἢ πότε ἀληθινοὶ ὁλόριζοι ἀπώλοντο;

LXX

Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?

ASV

זְכָר נָ֗א מִ֤י ה֣וּא נָקִ֣י אָבָ֑ד וְ֝/אֵיפֹ֗ה יְשָׁרִ֥ים נִכְחָֽדוּ

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

9 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֵיפֹ֥ה
'yph
particle · 10×
ה֖וּא
hv'
pronoun · 1878×
זְכָר
zkr
verb · 231×
יָּשָׁ֖ר
yshr
adjective · 114×
ם
m
verb · 183×
מִ֣י
my
particle · 420×
נִכְחַ֣ד
nkchd
verb · 32×
נָ֣א
n'
particle · 403×
נָקִ֔י
nqy
adjective · 42×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 2Pet 2:9 — The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
  • Acts 28:4 — And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live.
  • Eccl 7:15 — All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness.
  • Eccl 9:1 — For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before th
  • Job 8:20 — Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers:
  • Job 8:20 — Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers:
  • Job 9:22 — This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
  • Job 11:14 — If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.
  • Job 36:7 — He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings are they on the throne; yea, he doth establish them for ever, and they are exalted.
  • Ps 37:25 — I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.