King James Version
Job 4:7 in the King James Version says “Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?” — study this verse from Job chapter 4 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?”
Job 4:7 · KJV
But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.
Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?
Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?
Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed. by the breath: that is, by his anger
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“Remember”
H2142properly, to mark (so as to be recognized), i.e., to remember; by implication, to mention; to be male
'i pray', 'now', or 'then'; added mostly to verbs (in the imperative or future), or to interjections, occasionally to an adverb or conjunction
who? (occasionally, by a peculiar idiom, of things); also (indefinitely) whoever; often used in oblique construction with prefix or suffix
he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo
“I pray thee who ever perished”
H6properly, to wander away, i.e., lose oneself; by implication to perish (causative, destroy)
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