Job 4:20

Betwixt morning and evening they are shattered; they perish for ever without any regarding it.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

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 them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!

21Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.'

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 21:20Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years; and he departed joyless; and they buried him in the city of David, but not in the sepulchres of the kings.

Job 14:14If a man die, may he live again? All the days of my service would I wait, till my relief should come —

Job 16:22For the years that are few are coming on, and I shall go the way whence I shall not return.

Job 20:7Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung; they that have seen him shall say: 'Where is he?'

Psalms 39:13(39-14) Look away from me, that I may take comfort, before I go hence, and be no more.'

Psalms 92:7(92-8) When the wicked spring up as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they may be destroyed for ever.

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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