Job 4:21
They are like [MET] tents that collapse suddenly: They die suddenly before they become wise.’”
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.
In Context
Cross References
Job 18:21And that is what happens to ungodly/sinful people like you, to people who ◄have no interest in/have rejected► God.”
Job 36:12But if they do not ◄listen/pay attention► to him, they will die violently, not knowing why God is causing them to die.
Psalms 39:11When you rebuke someone and punish him for the sin that he has committed, you destroy the things that ◄he loves/are precious to him►, like moths’ larva destroy clothing. Our lives disappear like a puff of wind. (Think about that!)
Psalms 49:20Even if someone is great, that cannot prevent him from dying; he will die, the same as animals do.
Isaiah 2:22So, do not trust that people will save you, because people are as powerless as [MET] their own breath. People certainly cannot help you [RHQ]!
Luke 12:20But God said to him, ‘You foolish man! Tonight you will die! ◄Then all the goods you have saved up for yourself will belong to someone else, not to you!/Do you think that you will benefit from all that you have stored up for yourself?► [RHQ]’”
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 →