Job 4:21
19 how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!
20 They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; unnoticed, they perish forever.
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
- Are not their tent cords pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?’
- KJV
- Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.
- WEB
- Isn’t their tent cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.’
- ASV
- Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.
- DARBY
- Is not their tent-cord torn away in them? they die, and without wisdom.
- BLB
- Has not their tent cord been pulled up with them? They will die, and not in wisdom?’
- ÅB
- Blir ikke teltsnoren dradd ut[^2] hos dem? De dør, men ikke i visdom.
[^1]: d.e. ufullkommenhet.
[^2]: så deres jordiske telt (2KO 5, 1.) faller sammen. - OTB
- Er ikke teltenes snorer trukket opp innenfra?
De dør uten visdom.' - B1930
- Blir ikke teltsnoren dradd ut hos dem? De dør, men ikke i visdom. / < så deres jordiske telt (2KO 5, 1.) faller sammen.>
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 36:12
But if they do not obey, then they perish by the sword and die without knowledge.
Read in contextLuke 16:22–23
One day the beggar died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s side. And the rich man also died and was buried.
Read in contextJob 8:22
Your enemies will be clothed in shame, and the tent of the wicked will be no more.”
Read in contextPsalms 39:11
You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah
Read in contextLuke 12:20
But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be required of you. Then who will own what you have accumulated?’
Read in contextPsalms 49:14
Like sheep they are destined for Sheol. Death will be their shepherd. The upright will rule them in the morning, and their form will decay in Sheol, far from their lofty abode.
Read in contextPsalms 39:5
You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah
Read in contextIsaiah 2:22
Put no more trust in man, who has only the breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?
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