Job 4:21
Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.
In Context
20Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.
Cross References
Job 18:21Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous, and this is the place of him who does not know God.
Job 36:12But if they do not hearken, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.
Psalms 39:11When thou have corrected man with rebukes for iniquity, thou make his beauty to disintegrate like a moth. Surely every man is vanity. Selah.
Psalms 49:20A man who is in splendor, and understands not, is like the beasts that perish.
Isaiah 2:22Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils, for how is he to be accounted of?
Luke 12:20But God said to him, Thou foolish man, they demand thy soul from thee this night, and the things that thou prepared, whose will they be?
Matthew Henry on Job 4:13-21
12 Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof. 13 In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, 14 Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. 15 Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up: 16 It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying, 17 Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his… Read the whole commentary →