Job 4:21
Is not their tent-rope within them, torn away? They die, disrobed of wisdom!
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.
In Context
20Betwixt morning and evening, are they broken in pieces, With none to save, they utterly perish:
Cross References
Job 18:21Surely, these, are the dwellings of him that is perverse, and, this, is the place of him that knoweth not GOD.
Job 36:12But, if they would not hearken, by a weapon, should they pass away, and breathe their last, no one knowing.
Psalms 39:11When, by rebukes for iniquity, thou hast corrected a man, Then hast thou consumed, as a moth, all that was delightful within him, Surely, a breath, are all men. [Selah.]
Psalms 49:20A son of earth though wealthy, who discerneth not, Hath made himself a by-word, Beasts, they resemble.
Isaiah 2:22Cease ye from the son of earth, In whose nostrils is but a breath,—For wherein to be reckoned upon, is he?
Luke 12:20But God said unto him—Simple one! on this very night, they are asking, thy soul, from thee; The things, then, which thou hast prepared, whose shall 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 →