Job 4:20

Between morning and evening are they destroyed; They perish for ever, and none regardeth it.

Noyes Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

19What then are they who dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who crumble to pieces, as if moth-eaten!

21The excellency that is in them is torn away; They die before they have become wise.”

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Cross References

Job 14:14If a man die, can he live again? All the days of my war-service would I wait, Till my change should come.

Job 16:22For when a few years shall have passed, I shall go the way whence I shall not return.

Job 20:7Yet shall he perish for ever, and be mingled with dust; They who saw him shall say, Where is he?

Psalms 39:13O spare me, that I may recover strength, Before I go away, and be no more!

Psalms 92:7When the wicked spring up like grass, And all who practise iniquity flourish, It is but to be destroyed for ever!

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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