Job 4:20

And from morning to evening they no longer exist: 1 They have perished, because they cannot help themselves. 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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

In Context

19But as for them that dwell in houses of clay, 1 Of whom we also are formed of the same clay, 1 He smites them like a moth. 1

21For he blows upon them, and they are withered: 1 They have perished for lack of wisdom.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 21:20He was thirty and two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. And he departed without honor, and was buried in the city of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.

Job 14:14For if a man should die, shall he live again, 1 Having accomplished the days of his life? 1 I will wait till I exist again? 1

Job 16:22But my years are numbered and their end come, 1 And I shall go by the way by which I shall not return.

Job 20:7For when he shall seem to be now established, 1 Then he shall utterly perish: 1 And they that knew him shall say, Where is he? 1

Psalms 39:13For innumerable evils have encompassed me; 1 My transgressions have taken hold of me, and I could not see; 1 They are multiplied more than the hairs of my head; 1 And my heart has failed me. 1

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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