Job 4:20

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

18He puts no trust even in His servants; And against His angels He charges error. 19How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before the moth! Between morning and evening they are broken in pieces; Unobserved, they perish forever. 21Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them? They die, yet without wisdom.’

Job 4:20 word by word

מִבֹּ֣קֶר לָעֶ֣רֶב יֻכַּ֑תּוּ מִבְּלִ֥י מֵ֝שִׂ֗ים לָנֶ֥צַח יֹאבֵֽדוּ׃Read the interlinear

• Betweenמִן־min minnîy minnêy · fromH4480
• morningבֹּ֫קֶרbôqer · morningH1242
• and eveningעֶ֫רֶב‛ereb · eveningH6153
• they are brokenכָּתַתkâthath · to crushH3807
• Unobservedבְּלִיbelîy · withoutH1097
• Unobservedשׂוּםώûm ώîym · to set: considerH7760
• perishאָבַד'âbad · to perishH6
• foreverנֵ֫צַחnetsach nêtsach · perpetuityH5331

Cross-references for Job 4:20

• 2 Chronicles 15:6Nation was crushed by nation, and city by city, for God troubled them with every kind of distress.
• Isaiah 38:12Like a shepherd’s tent my dwelling is pulled up and removed from me; As a weaver I rolled up my life. He cuts me off from the loom; From day until night You make an end of me.
• Job 14:14If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my struggle I will wait Until my change comes.
• Job 16:22For when a few years are past, I shall go the way of no return.
• Psalms 39:13Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may smile again Before I depart and am no more.”
• Psalms 92:7That when the wicked sprouted up like grass And all who did iniquity flourished, It was only that they might be destroyed forevermore.
• Job 18:17Memory of him perishes from the earth, And he has no name abroad.
• Job 20:7He perishes forever like his refuse; Those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’
• 2 Chronicles 21:20He was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years; and he departed with no one’s regret, and they buried him in the city of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.
• Psalms 37:36Then he passed away, and lo, he was no more; I sought for him, but he could not be found.
• Proverbs 10:7The memory of the righteous is blessed, 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

Topics related to Job 4:20

• Dream
• Faith
• Immortality
• Life
• Man
• Wisdom

In the dictionaries

• Clay
• Crush
• Prey
• Eliphaz (2)
• Eliphaz
• eternity, everlasting, eternal, forever

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