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Job 4:7
Job 4:7 is verse 7 of Job chapter 4, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?
King James Version
Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?
World English Bible
“Remember, now, who ever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?
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Job 4:5–9 · Berean Standard Bible
5 But now trouble has come upon you, and you are weary. It strikes you, and you are dismayed.
6 Is your reverence not your confidence, and the uprightness of your ways your hope?
7 Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?
8 As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.
9 By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of His anger they are consumed.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Job 9:22It is all the same, and so I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’
Job 9:23When the scourge brings sudden death, He mocks the despair of the innocent.
Psalms 37:25I once was young and now am old, yet never have I seen the righteous abandoned or their children begging for bread.
Ecclesiastes 7:15In my futile life I have seen both of these: A righteous man perishing in his righteousness, and a wicked man living long in his wickedness.
Ecclesiastes 9:1So I took all this to heart and concluded that the righteous and the wise, as well as their deeds, are in God’s hands. Man does not know what lies ahead, whether love or hate.
Ecclesiastes 9:2It is the same for all: There is a common fate for the righteous and the wicked, for the good and the bad, for the clean and the unclean, for the one who sacrifices and the one who does not. As it is for the good, so it is for the sinner; as it is for the one who makes a vow, so it is for the one who refuses to take a vow.
Acts 28:4When the islanders saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “Surely this man is a murderer. Although he was saved from the sea, Justice has not allowed him to live.”
2 Peter 2:9if all this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment.