Job 4:21
Is not their tent-cord torn away in them? they die, and without wisdom.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.
In Context
20From morning to evening are they smitten: without any heeding it, they perish for ever.
Cross References
Job 18:21Surely, such are the dwellings of the unrighteous man, and such the place of him that knoweth not God.
Job 36:12But if they hearken not, they shall pass away by the sword, and expire without knowledge.
Psalms 39:11When thou with rebukes dost correct a man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely, every man is vanity. Selah.
Psalms 49:20Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish.
Isaiah 2:22Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for what account is to be made of him?
Luke 12:20But God said to him, Fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee; and whose shall be what thou hast prepared?
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 →