Job 4:20
Between morning and evening they are completely broken; they come to an end for ever, and no one takes note.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.
In Context
21If their tent-cord is pulled up, do they not come to an end, and without wisdom?
Cross References
2 Chronicles 21:20He was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for eight years: and at his death he was not regretted; they put his body into the earth in the town of David, but not in the resting-place of the kings.
Job 14:14If death takes a man, will he come to life again? All the days of my trouble I would be waiting, till the time came for me to be free.
Job 16:22For in a short time I will take the journey from which I will not come back.
Job 20:7Like the waste from his body he comes to an end for ever: those who have seen him say, Where is he?
Psalms 39:13\39:12\Let my prayer come to your ears, O Lord, and give attention to my cry, make an answer to my weeping: for my time here is short before you, and in a little time I will be gone, like all my fathers.
Psalms 92:7\92:6\A man without sense has no knowledge of this; and a foolish man may not take it in.
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 →