Job 4:20

From morning all the way to evening, they will be cut down, and because no one understands, they will be destroyed without ceasing.

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In The King James Version

They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.

In Context

19How much more will those who live in houses of clay, which have an earthly foundation, be consumed like the moth?

21But those who are left behind will be taken away from them; they will die, and not in wisdom.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 21:20He was thirty-two years old when he had begun to reign, and he reigned for eight years in Jerusalem. And he did not walk uprightly. And they buried him in the City of David, yet truly, not in the sepulcher of the kings.

Job 14:14Do you suppose that a dead man will live again? On each of the days in which I now battle, I wait until my transformation occurs.

Job 16:22And I wish that a man might be so judged before God, just as the son of man is judged with his assistant!

Job 20:7in the end, he will be destroyed like a trash heap, and those who had seen him will say: “Where is he?”

Psalms 39:13For evils without number have surrounded me. My iniquities have taken hold of me, and I was not able to see. They have been multiplied beyond the hairs of my head. And my heart has forsaken me.

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 →

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