Verse 7

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

Referenced Verses

• Ps 37:25 : 25 I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
• 2 Pet 2:9 : 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 : 20 Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers:
• Job 9:22-23 : 22 This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked. 23 If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
• Job 36:7 : 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.
• Eccl 7:15 : 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.
• Eccl 9:1-2 : 1 For all this I considered in my heart even to dlare 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. 2 All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
• Acts 28:4 : 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.