Job 4:20

From morning till evening they shall be cut down: and because no one understandeth, they shall perish for ever.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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 shall they that dwell in houses of clay, who have an earthly foundation, be consumed as with the moth?

21And they that shall be left, shall be taken away from them: they shall die, and not in wisdom.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 21:20He was two and thirty years old when he began his reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. And he walked not rightly, and they buried him in the city of David: but not in the sepulchres of the kings.

Job 14:14Shall man that is dead, thinkest thou, live again? all the days in which I am now in warfare, I expect until my change come.

Job 16:22And O that a man might so be judged with God, as the son of man is judged with his companion!

Job 20:7In the end he shall be destroyed like a dunghill, and they that has seen him shall say: Where is he?

Psalms 39:13Hear my prayer, O Lord, and my supplication : give ear to my tears. Be not silent : for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner as all my fathers were.

Psalms 92:7The senseless man shall not know: nor will the fool understand these things.

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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