Job 4:7 meaning and explanation

Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?

Job 4:7, Berean Standard Bible

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Eliphaz, the first of Job's three friends to speak, addresses a man who has lost his children, wealth and health. He begins kindly, recalling how Job once steadied others, but then presses a claim: the innocent do not perish.

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