Job 4:21
Isn’t their tent cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.’
World Messianic 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 they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.
Cross References
Job 18:21Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous. This is the place of him who doesn’t know God.”
Job 36:12But if they don’t listen, they will perish by the sword; they will die without knowledge.
Psalms 39:11When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, you consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath.” Selah.
Psalms 49:20A man who has riches without understanding, is like the animals that perish.
Isaiah 2:22Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for of what account is he?
Luke 12:20“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’
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 →