English Standard Version
Job 4:20
20Between morning and evening they are beaten to pieces; they perish forever without anyone 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.
- New King James Version (NKJV)They are broken in pieces from morning till evening; They perish forever, with no one regarding.
- New Living Translation (NLT)They are alive in the morning but dead by evening, gone forever without a trace.
Context of Job 4:20
18Even in his servants he puts no trust, and his angels he charges with error; 19how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like the moth. Between morning and evening they are beaten to pieces; they perish forever without anyone regarding it. 21Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them, do they not 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
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Cross-references for Job 4:20
- 2 Chronicles 15:6They were broken in pieces. Nation was crushed by nation and city by city, for God troubled them with every sort of distress.
- Isaiah 38:12My dwelling is plucked up and removed from me like a shepherd's tent; like a weaver I have rolled up my life; he cuts me off from the loom; from day to night you bring me to an end;
- Job 14:14If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my service I would wait, till my renewal should come.
- Job 16:22For when a few years have come I shall go the way from which I shall not return.
- Psalms 39:13Look away from me, that I may smile again, before I depart and am no more!"
- Psalms 92:7that though the wicked sprout like grass and all evildoers flourish, they are doomed to destruction forever;
- Job 18:17His memory perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the street.
- Job 20:7he will perish forever like his own dung; those who have seen him will say, 'Where is he?'
- 2 Chronicles 21:20He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. And he departed with no one's regret. They buried him in the city of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.
- Psalms 37:36But he passed away, and behold, he was no more; though I sought him, he could not be found.
- Proverbs 10:7The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked will 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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