Job 4:20

Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.

World English 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 foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!

21Isn’t their tent cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.’

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 21:20He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years. He departed with no one’s regret. They buried him in David’s city, but not in the tombs of the kings.

Job 14:14If a man dies, will he live again? I would wait all the days of my warfare, until my release should come.

Job 16:22For when a few years have come, I will go the way of no return.

Job 20:7yet he will perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’

Psalms 39:13Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away and exist no more.”

Psalms 92:7though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.

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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