Job 4:21
Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.'
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.
In Context
20Betwixt morning and evening they are shattered; they perish for ever without any regarding it.
Cross References
Job 18:21Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.
Job 36:12But if they hearken not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.
Psalms 39:11(39-12) With rebukes dost Thou chasten man for iniquity, and like a moth Thou makest his beauty to consume away; surely every man is vanity. Selah
Psalms 49:20(49-21) Man that is in honour understandeth not; he is like the beasts that perish.
Isaiah 2:22Cease ye from man, in whose nostrils is a breath; for how little is he to be accounted!
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 →