Job 4:20

Betwixt morning and evening, are they broken in pieces, With none to save, they utterly perish:

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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 the dwellers in houses of clay, which, in the dust, have their foundation, which are crushed sooner than a moth:

21Is not their tent-rope within them, torn away? They die, disrobed of wisdom!

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 21:20Thirty-two years old, was he when he began to reign, and, eight years, reigned he in Jerusalem,—and went his way—unregretted, and, though they buried him in the city of David, yet, not in the sepulchres of the kings.

Job 14:14If a man die, can he live again? All the days of my warfare, would I wait, until my relief should come:—

Job 16:22When, a few years, come, then, by a path by which I shall not return, shall I depart.

Job 20:7Like his own stubble, shall he utterly perish, They who had seen him, shall say, Where is he?

Psalms 39:13Look away from me that I may brighten up, Ere yet I depart and am no more.

Psalms 92:7When the lawless do thrive like grass, And all the workers of iniquity have blossomed, It is that they may 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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