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Job 4:20
20From morning to evening are they smitten: without any heeding it, they perish for ever.
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
18Lo, he trusteth not 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 as the moth! From morning to evening are they smitten: without any heeding it, they perish for ever. 21Is not their tent-cord torn away in them? they die, and without wisdom.
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מִבֹּ֣קֶר לָעֶ֣רֶב יֻכַּ֑תּוּ מִבְּלִ֥י מֵ֝שִׂ֗ים לָנֶ֥צַח יֹאבֵֽדוּ׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Job 4:20
- 2 Chronicles 15:6And nation was broken against nation, and city against city; for God disturbed them with all manner of distress.
- Isaiah 38:12Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent. I have cut off like a weaver my life. He separateth me from the thrum: — from day to night thou wilt make an end of me.
- Job 14:14(If a man die, shall he live [again]?) all the days of my time of toil would I wait, till my change should come:
- Job 16:22For years [few] in number shall pass, — and I shall go the way [whence] I shall not return.
- Psalms 39:13Look away from me, and let me 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 flourish, it is that they may be destroyed for ever.
- Job 18:17His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name on the pasture-grounds.
- Job 20:7Like his own dung doth he perish for ever; they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?
- 2 Chronicles 21:20He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years, and departed without being regretted. And they buried him in the city of David, but not in the sepulchres of the kings.
- Psalms 37:36but he passed away, and behold, he was not; and I sought him, but he was not found.
- Proverbs 10:7The memory of the righteous [man] shall be 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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