Job 4:20

From morning to evening are they broken to pieces: without laying it [to heart] they perish for ever.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.

In Context

19How much less in those that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed till they come to be eaten by the moth?

21Behold, their excellency which is in them is torn away: they die, and this without wisdom.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 21:20Thirty and two years old was he when he became king, and eight years did he reign in Jerusalem, and departed without joy: and they buried him in the city of David, but not in the sepulchres of the kings.

Job 14:14Or, when a man dieth, will he live again? all the days of my time of service would I then wait, till [the hour of] my release were come.

Job 16:22For when the numbered years are passed, then must I travel a path whence I cannot return.

Job 20:7Yet when he but turneth round will he vanish for ever; those who have seen him will say, Where is he?

Psalms 39:13(39:14) Leave off from me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and am no more.

Psalms 92:7(92:8) When the wicked spring up like herbs, and when all the workers of wickedness do flourish; it is that they may be destroyed evermore.

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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