Job 4:21
They are like tent ropes that are pulled up, and they collapse in death. They die without wisdom.’”
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.
In Context
20Alive in the morning, they are dead by evening. They die, unnoticed.
Cross References
Job 18:21This is what happens to the homes of the wicked, to the places of those who reject God.”
Job 36:12But if they do not listen they will die a violent death, ignorant of God.
Psalms 39:11When you discipline us, reprimanding us for our sins, it's like a moth eating up what is precious to us. All of us are just a breath… Selah.
Psalms 49:20Human beings, for all their fame, don't understand, and they die, just like the animals.
Isaiah 2:22Don't bother trusting human beings who only live for a while. How much do they count?
Luke 12:20But God said to him, ‘You foolish man! Your life will be demanded back this very night, and then who will get everything you've stored up?’
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 →