Job 4:20

From morning to evening are they smitten: without any heeding it, they perish for ever.

Darby Translation

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 them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed as the moth!

21Is not their tent-cord torn away in them? they die, and without wisdom.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 21:20He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years, and departed without being regretted. And they buried him in the city of David, but not in the sepulchres of the kings.

Job 14:14(If a man die, shall he live [again]?) all the days of my time of toil would I wait, till my change should come:

Job 16:22For years [few] in number shall pass, and I shall go the way [whence] I shall not return.

Job 20:7Like his own dung doth he perish for ever; they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?

Psalms 39:13Look away from me, and let me recover strength, before I go hence and be no more.

Psalms 92:7When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity flourish, it is that they may be destroyed for ever.

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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