Job 4:20
18 If God puts no trust in His servants, and He charges His angels with error,
19 how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!
They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; unnoticed, they perish forever.
21 Are not their tent cords pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?’
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; unnoticed, they perish forever.
- KJV
- They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.
- WEB
- Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.
- ASV
- Betwixt morning and evening they are destroyed: They perish for ever without any regarding it.
- DARBY
- From morning to evening are they smitten: without any heeding it, they perish for ever.
- BLB
- From morning to evening they are broken to pieces; without anyone noticing, they perish forever.
- ÅB
- Fra morgen til kveld - så er de sønderslått; uten at noen akter på det, går de til grunne for alltid.
- OTB
- Fra morgen til kveld blir de knust;
ubemerket går de til grunne for alltid. - B1930
- Fra morgen til aften - så er de sønderslått; uten at nogen akter på det, går de til grunne for alltid.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 20:7
he will perish forever, like his own dung; those who had seen him will ask, ‘Where is he?’
Read in context2 Chronicles 21:20
Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years. He died, to no one’s regret, and was buried in the City of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.
Read in contextPsalms 39:13
Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may again be cheered before I depart and am no more.”
Read in contextJob 18:17
The memory of him perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the land.
Read in contextProverbs 10:7
The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.
Read in context2 Chronicles 15:6
Nation was crushed by nation, and city by city, for God afflicted them with all kinds of adversity.
Read in contextPsalms 90:5–6
You whisk them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning—
Read in contextJob 14:20
You forever overpower him, and he passes on; You change his countenance and send him away.
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