Charles Ellicott Commentary Job 4:7

"Remember, I pray thee, who [ever] perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?" — Job 4:7 (ASV)

Remember, I ask you, who ever perished, being innocent?—He challenges Job’s experience and quotes his own as proof of the universal connection between sin and suffering.

In doing so, his object may be to insinuate that Job is sinful; or, as seems perhaps more probable, and certainly more gracious, to prove to him that if he is what he was supposed to be, that itself is a ground of hope, since no innocent person is allowed to perish.

He utters here a half-truth, which, however, is after all true, since God will never fail, though He may try, those who trust in Him.