Job 4:21 “Are not their tent cords pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?’”

Job 4:21

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.

World English Bible

Isn’t their tent cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.’

American Standard Version

Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.

Geneva Bible 1599

Doeth not their dignitie goe away with them? do they not die, and that without wisdom?

Darby Translation

Is not their tent-cord torn away in them? they die, and without wisdom.

Young's Literal Translation

Hath not their excellency been removed with them? They die, and not in wisdom!

Bible in Basic English

If their tent-cord is pulled up, do they not come to an end, and without wisdom?

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Cross references

“excellency”

Psalm 39:11 Psalm 39:5 Psalm 49:14 Isaiah 14:16 James 1:11 Psalm 146:3

Psalm 39:11 · BSB

You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah

Psalm 39:5 · BSB

You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah

Psalm 49:14 · BSB

Like sheep they are destined for Sheol. Death will be their shepherd. The upright will rule them in the morning, and their form will decay in Sheol, far from their lofty abode.

Isaiah 14:16 · BSB

Those who see you will stare; they will ponder your fate: “Is this the man who shook the earth and made the kingdoms tremble,

James 1:11 · BSB

For the sun rises with scorching heat and withers the plant; its flower falls and its beauty is lost. So too, the rich man will fade away in the midst of his pursuits.

Psalm 146:3 · BSB

Put not your trust in princes, in mortal man, who cannot save.

“die”

Job 36:12 Psalm 49:20 Isaiah 2:22 Luke 12:20

Job 36:12 · BSB

But if they do not obey, then they perish by the sword and die without knowledge.

Psalm 49:20 · BSB

A man who has riches without understanding is like the beasts that perish.

Isaiah 2:22 · BSB

Put no more trust in man, who has only the breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?

Luke 12:20 · BSB

But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be required of you. Then who will own what you have accumulated?’

Also

Job 8:22 Job 18:21

Job 8:22 · BSB

Your enemies will be clothed in shame, and the tent of the wicked will be no more.”

Job 18:21 · BSB

Surely such is the dwelling of the wicked and the place of one who does not know God.”

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

In context

20They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; unnoticed, they perish forever.

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