Job 4:21
Are not their tent cords pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?’
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.
In Context
20They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; unnoticed, they perish forever.
Cross References
Job 18:21Surely such is the dwelling of the wicked and the place of one who does not know God.”
Job 36:12But if they do not obey, then they perish by the sword and die without knowledge.
Psalms 39:11You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah
Psalms 49:20A man who has riches without understanding is like the beasts that perish.
Isaiah 2:22Put no more trust in man, who has only the breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?
Luke 12:20But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be required of you. Then who will own what you have accumulated?’
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 →