Job 4:20 “They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; unnoticed, they perish f…”

Job 4:20

They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; unnoticed, they perish forever.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.

World English Bible

Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.

American Standard Version

Betwixt morning and evening they are destroyed: They perish for ever without any regarding it.

Geneva Bible 1599

They be destroyed from the morning vnto the euening: they perish for euer, without regarde.

Darby Translation

From morning to evening are they smitten: without any heeding it, they perish for ever.

Young's Literal Translation

From morning to evening are beaten down, Without any regarding, for ever they perish.

Bible in Basic English

Between morning and evening they are completely broken; they come to an end for ever, and no one takes note.

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Cross references

“destroyed”

2 Chronicles 15:6

2 Chronicles 15:6 · BSB

Nation was crushed by nation, and city by city, for God afflicted them with all kinds of adversity.

“from morning”

Isaiah 38:12 Isaiah 38:13

Isaiah 38:12 · BSB

My dwelling has been picked up and removed from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver; He cuts me off from the loom; from day until night You make an end of me.

Isaiah 38:13 · BSB

I composed myself until the morning. Like a lion He breaks all my bones; from day until night You make an end of me.

“they perish”

Job 14:14 Job 16:22 Psalm 39:13 Psalm 92:7

Job 14:14 · BSB

When a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait, until my renewal comes.

Job 16:22 · BSB

For when only a few years are past I will go the way of no return.

Psalm 39:13 · BSB

Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may again be cheered before I depart and am no more.”

Psalm 92:7 · BSB

that though the wicked sprout like grass, and all evildoers flourish, they will be forever destroyed.

“without”

Job 20:7 Job 18:17 2 Chronicles 21:20 Psalm 37:36 Proverbs 10:7

Job 20:7 · BSB

he will perish forever, like his own dung; those who had seen him will ask, ‘Where is he?’

Job 18:17 · BSB

The memory of him perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the land.

2 Chronicles 21:20 · BSB

Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years. He died, to no one’s regret, and was buried in the City of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.

Psalm 37:36 · BSB

yet he passed away and was no more; though I searched, he could not be found.

Proverbs 10:7 · BSB

The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.

Also

Job 14:2 Psalm 90:5–6 Job 14:20

Job 14:2 · BSB

Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.

Psalm 90:5–6 · BSB

You sweep them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning—

Job 14:20 · BSB

You forever overpower him, and he passes on; You change his countenance and send him away.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

19how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!

21Are not their tent cords pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?’

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