7 Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?
7 "Consider now: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Where were the upright ever destroyed?
7 "Remember: who that was innocent ever perished? Or where were the upright cut off?
7 "Think! Has a truly innocent person ever ended up on the scrap heap? Do genuinely upright people ever lose out in the end?
7 "Remember now, who ever perished being innocent? Or where were the upright ever cut off?
7 "Stop and think! Do the innocent die? When have the upright been destroyed?
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 4:7
Commentary on Job 4:7-11
(Read Job 4:7-11)
Eliphaz argues, 1. That good men were never thus ruined. But there is one event both to the righteous and to the wicked, Ecclesiastes 9:2, both in life and death; the great and certain difference is after death. Our worst mistakes are occasioned by drawing wrong views from undeniable truths. 2. That wicked men were often thus ruined: for the proof of this, Eliphaz vouches his own observation. We may see the same every day.