“Remember, now, whoever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?
⛓ Read Job 4 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Echo2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The friends' assumption that suffering proves prior sin (Eliphaz: 'who ever perished, being innocent?') is the wisdom-debate background to the disciples' question. Job as a whole resists the suffering-equals-sin calculus; the echo is thematic and diffuse rather than verbal.
Low confidenceEliphaz's 'who ever perished, being innocent?' frames the retributive assumption ('worse sinners... because they suffered') that Jesus overturns. Faint and contested, but coherent with the OT debate over suffering as proof of guilt.
Low confidence