Job 4:21
Behold, their excellency which is in them is torn away: they die, and this without wisdom.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.
In Context
Cross References
Job 18:21Yea, such are the dwellings of the unjust, and this is the place of one that knew not God.
Job 36:12But if they hearken not, they will pass away through the sword, and they will perish in want of knowledge.
Psalms 39:11(39:12) When thou with corrections chastisest man for iniquity, thou causest his excellence to melt away as [if eaten by] the moth: yea, nothing but vanity is every man. Selah.
Psalms 49:20(49:21) Man, though in splendor, who understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish. °
Isaiah 2:22Withdraw yourselves [then] from man, whose breath is in his nostrils; because, for what is he to be esteemed?
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 →