Job 4:21
Has their excellence not been removed with them? They die, and not in wisdom!”
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.
In Context
20From morning to evening are beaten down, || Without any regarding, they perish forever.
Cross References
Job 18:21Only these [are] dwelling places of the perverse, || And this [is] the place God has not known.”
Job 36:12And if they do not listen, || They pass away by the dart, || And expire without knowledge.
Psalms 39:11With reproofs against iniquity, || You have corrected man, || And dissolve his desirableness as a moth, || Only, every man [is] vanity. Selah.
Psalms 49:20Man in honor, who does not understand, || Has been like the beasts, they have been cut off!
Isaiah 2:22Cease yourselves from man, || Whose breath [is] in his nostrils, || For—in what is he esteemed?
Luke 12:20And God said to him, Unthinking [one]! This night your life is required of you, and what things you prepared—to whom will they be [given]?
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 →