Job 4:7
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Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished being innocent? or when were the just destroyed?

who ever.

Job 9:22,23 One thing there is that I have spoken, both the innocent and the wicked he consumeth. . . .

Psalm 37:25 I have been young and now am old; and I have not seen the just forsaken, nor his seed seeking bread.

Ecclesiastes 7:15 These things also I saw in the days of my vanity: A just man perisheth in his justice, and a wicked man liveth a long time in his wickedness.

Ecclesiastes 9:1,2 All these things have I considered in my heart, that I might carefully understand them: there are just men and wise men, and their works are in the hand of God: and yet man knoweth not whether he be worthy of love, or hatred: . . .

Acts 28:4 And when the barbarians saw the beast hanging on his hand, they said one to another: Undoubtedly this man is a murderer, who, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance doth not suffer him to live.

2 Peter 2:9 The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly from temptation, but to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be tormented:

Context
Eliphaz: The Innocent Prosper
6Where is thy fear, thy fortitude, thy patience, and the perfection of thy ways? 7Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished being innocent? or when were the just destroyed?8On the contrary, I have seen those who work iniquity, and sow sorrows, and reap them,…
Cross References
Job 8:20
God will not cast away the simple, nor reach out his hand to the evil doer:

Job 36:6
But he saveth not the wicked, and he giveth judgment to the poor.

Job 36:7
He will not take away his eyes from the just, and he placeth kings on the throne for ever, and they are exalted.

Psalm 37:25
I have been young and now am old; and I have not seen the just forsaken, nor his seed seeking bread.

Lexicon
Consider
זְכָר־ (zə·ḵār-)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2142: To mark, to remember, to mention, to be male

now:
נָ֗א (nā)
Interjection
Strong's Hebrew 4994: I pray', 'now', 'then'

Who
מִ֤י (mî)
Interrogative
Strong's Hebrew 4310: Who?, whoever, in oblique construction with prefix, suffix

has perished
אָבָ֑ד (’ā·ḇāḏ)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6: To wander away, lose oneself, to perish

when
ה֣וּא (hū)
Pronoun - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1931: He, self, the same, this, that, as, are

he was innocent?
נָקִ֣י (nā·qî)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5355: Clean, free from, exempt

Or where
וְ֝אֵיפֹ֗ה (wə·’ê·p̄ōh)
Conjunctive waw | Interrogative
Strong's Hebrew 375: What place?, when?, how?

were the upright
יְשָׁרִ֥ים (yə·šā·rîm)
Adjective - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3477: Straight, right

destroyed?
נִכְחָֽדוּ׃ (niḵ·ḥā·ḏū)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 3582: To secrete, by act, word, to destroy


Additional Translations
Consider now: Who has perished when he was innocent? Or where were the upright destroyed?Remember, I pray you, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?

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

Remember then who has perished, being pure? or when were the true-hearted utterly destroyed?

Remember, I pray thee, who that was innocent has perished? and where were the upright cut off?

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

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

"Remember, now, whoever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?

Remember, I pray thee, Who, being innocent, hath perished? And where have the upright been cut off?
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