Job 4:20
From morning to evening are beaten down, Without any regarding, for ever they perish.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.
In Context
21Hath not their excellency been removed with them? They die, and not in wisdom!
Cross References
2 Chronicles 21:20A son of thirty and two [years] was he in his reigning, and eight years he hath reigned in Jerusalem, and he goeth without desire, and they bury him in the city of David, and not in the graves of the kings.
Job 14:14If a man dieth — doth he revive? All days of my warfare I wait, till my change come.
Job 16:22When a few years do come, Then a path I return not do I go.
Job 20:7As his own dung for ever he doth perish, His beholders say: 'Where [is] he?'
Psalms 39:13Look from me, and I brighten up before I go and am not!
Psalms 92:7When the wicked flourish as a herb, And blossom do all workers of iniquity — For their being destroyed for ever and 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 →