American Standard Version
Job 4:20
20Betwixt morning and evening they are destroyed:They perish for ever without any regarding it.
Job 4:20 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.
- New International Version (NIV)Between dawn and dusk they are broken to pieces; unnoticed, they perish forever.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Between morning and evening they are beaten to pieces; they perish forever without anyone regarding it.
- New King James Version (NKJV)They are broken in pieces from morning till evening; They perish forever, with no one regarding.
Context of Job 4:20
18Behold, he putteth no trust in his servants; And his angels he chargeth with folly: 19How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before the moth! Betwixt morning and evening they are destroyed: They perish for ever without any regarding it. 21Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.
Read all of Job 4Job 4:20 word by word
מִבֹּ֣קֶר לָעֶ֣רֶב יֻכַּ֑תּוּ מִבְּלִ֥י מֵ֝שִׂ֗ים לָנֶ֥צַח יֹאבֵֽדוּ׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Job 4:20
- 2 Chronicles 15:6And they were broken in pieces, nation against nation, and city against city; for God did vex them with all adversity.
- Isaiah 38:12My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me as a shepherd’s tent: I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life; he will cut me off from the loom: From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
- Job 14:14If a man die, shall he liveagain? All the days of my warfare would I wait, Till my release should come.
- Job 16:22For when a few years are come, I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
- Psalms 39:13Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, Before I go hence, and be no more.
- Psalms 92:7When the wicked spring as the grass, And when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; It is that they shall be destroyed for ever.
- Job 18:17His remembrance shall perish from the earth, And he shall have no name in the street.
- Job 20:7Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: They that have seen him shall say, Where is he?
- 2 Chronicles 21:20Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years: and he departed without being desired; and they buried him in the city of David, but not in the sepulchres of the kings.
- Psalms 37:36But one passed by, and, lo, he was not: Yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
- Proverbs 10:7The memory of the righteous is blessed; But the name of the wicked shall rot.
Commentaries on Job 4:20
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 20They are destroyed from morning to evening - In almost every moment of time some human being comes into the world, and some one departs from it. Thus are they "destroyed from morning to evening." They perish for ever - יאבדו yobedu ; peribunt, they pass by; they go out of sight; they moulder with the dust, and are soon forgotten. Who regards the past generation now among the dead? Isaiah has a similar thought, Isaiah 57:1; : "The righteous perisheth, and…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 20They are destroyed from morning to evening - Margin, “beaten in pieces.” This is nearer to the Hebrew. The phrase “from morning to evening” means between the morning and the evening; that is, they live scarcely a single day; see the notes at Isaiah 38:12. The idea is, not the continuance of the work of destruction from morning to evening; but that man‘s life is excecdingly short, so short that he scarce seems to live from morning to night. What a…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 12-21Verses 12-21 Eliphaz relates a vision. When we are communing with our own hearts, and are still, Psa 4:4, then is a time for the Holy Spirit to commune with us. This vision put him into very great fear. Ever since man sinned, it has been terrible to him to receive communications from Heaven, conscious that he can expect no good tidings thence. Sinful man! shall he pretend to be more just, more pure, than God, who being his Maker, is his Lord and Owner?…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 18-21The idea that God does not trust His servants and charges His angels with error is unique (but see Genesis 6:1–4).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2020. from morning to evening--unceasingly; or, better, between the morning and evening of one short day (so Ex 18:14; Is 38:12). They are destroyed--better, "they would be destroyed," if God withdrew His loving protection. Therefore man must not think to be holy before God, but to draw holiness and all things else from God (Job 4:17).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 4
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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