Job 4:7 · KJV
“Remember, I pray thee, who {ever} perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?”
— Job 4:7
{Is} not {this} thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?
Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
Job 4 — Context
But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.
6{Is} not {this} thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?
7Remember, I pray thee, who {ever} perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?
8Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
9By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed. {by the breath...: that is, by his anger}
Cross References
Psalms 37:25
I have been young, and {now} am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
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.
2 Peter 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:
Job 8:20
Behold, God will not cast away a perfect {man}, neither will he help the evil doers: {help...: Heb. take the ungodly by the hand} {come: Heb. shall not be}
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.
Job 9:22-23
This {is} one {thing}, therefore I said {it}, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
Ecclesiastes 9:1-2
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 them. {I considered...: Heb. I gave, or, set to my heart}
Ecclesiastes 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.