Job 4:20

They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; unnoticed, they perish forever.

Majority Standard Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

19how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!

21Are not their tent cords pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?’

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 21:20Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years. He died, to no one’s regret, and was buried in the City of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.

Job 14:14When a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait, until my renewal comes.

Job 16:22For when only a few years are past I will go the way of no return.

Job 20:7he will perish forever, like his own dung; those who had seen him will ask, ‘Where is he?’

Psalms 39:13Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may again be cheered before I depart and am no more.”

Psalms 92:7that though the wicked sprout like grass, and all evildoers flourish, they will be forever destroyed.

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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