Job 4:21
The excellency that is in them is torn away; They die before they have become wise.”
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.
In Context
20Between morning and evening are they destroyed; They perish for ever, and none regardeth it.
Cross References
Job 18:21Yea, such is the dwelling of the unrighteous man; Such is the place of him who knoweth not God!
Job 36:12But if they obey not, they perish by the sword; They die in their own folly.
Psalms 39:11When thou with rebukes dost chasten man for iniquity, Thou causest his glory to waste away like a moth! Surely every man is vanity.
Psalms 49:20The man who is in honor, but without understanding, Is like the beasts that perish.
Isaiah 2:22Trust, then, no more in man, Whose breath is in his nostrils! For what account is to be made of him!
Luke 12:20But God said to him, Fool! this night will thy soul he required of thee; and whose will those things be which thou hast laid up?
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 →