Translations
Modern
Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?
Traditional
Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?
Literal
Remember please: Who is he who has perished being innocent? And where have the upright been cut off?
Latin
Recordare, obsecro te, quis umquam innocens periit? aut quando recti deleti sunt?
Original
Hebrew
English
Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?
Notes
Job probably considered his children among the innocent who died (1:5). Even Eliphaz must have known that people sometimes "shed innocent blood" (compare Deuteronomy 19:10; Proverbs 6:17; Jeremiah 7:6).
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