Job 4:21
Hath not their excellency been removed with them? They die, and not in wisdom!
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.
In Context
20From morning to evening are beaten down, Without any regarding, for ever they perish.
Cross References
Job 18:21Only these [are] tabernacles of the perverse, And this the place God hath not known.
Job 36:12And if they do not hearken, By the dart they pass away, And expire without knowledge.
Psalms 39:11With reproofs against iniquity, Thou hast corrected man, And dost waste as a moth his desirableness, Only, vanity [is] every man. Selah.
Psalms 49:20Man in honour, who understandest not, Hath been like the beasts, they have been cut off!
Isaiah 2:22Cease for you from man, Whose breath [is] in his nostrils, For — in what is he esteemed?
Luke 12:20'And God said to him, Unthinking one! this night thy soul they shall require from thee, and what things thou didst prepare — to whom 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 →