Job 4:21
If their tent-cord is pulled up, do they not come to an end, and without wisdom?
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.
In Context
Cross References
Job 18:21Truly, these are the houses of the sinner, and this is the place of him who has no knowledge of God.
Job 36:12But if not, they come to their end, and give up their breath without knowledge.
Psalms 39:11\39:10\No longer let your hand be hard on me; I am wasted by the blows of your hand.
Psalms 49:20\49:19\He will go to the generation of his fathers; he will not see the light again.
Isaiah 2:22Have no more to do with man, whose life is only a breath, for he is of no value.
Luke 12:20But God said to him, You foolish one, tonight I will take your soul from you, and who then will be the owner of all the things which you have got together?
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 →