Job 4:21
For he blows upon them, and they are withered: they have perished for lack of wisdom.
Brenton Septuagint
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 18:21These are the houses of the unrighteous, and this is the place of them that know not the Lord.
Job 36:12But he preserves not the ungodly; because they are not willing to know the Lord, and because when reproved they were disobedient.
Psalms 39:11I have not hid thy truth within my heart, and I have declared thy salvation; I have not hid thy mercy and thy truth from the great congregation.
Psalms 49:20Thou didst sit and speak against thy brother, and didst scandalise thy mother's son.
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 →