Job 4:21
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Are not their tent cords pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?’”
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BSBPD
“Are not their tent cords pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?’”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“Hath not their excellency been removed with them? They die, and not in wisdom!”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Job 4:21 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 8:22Your enemies will be clothed in shame, and the tent of the wicked will be no more.”
- Job 18:21Surely such is the dwelling of the wicked and the place of one who does not know God.”
- Job 32:9It is not only the old who are wise, or the elderly who understand justice.
- Job 36:12But if they do not obey, then they perish by the sword and die without knowledge.
- Psalms 39:5You, 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
- Psalms 39:11You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah
- Psalms 49:14Like 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.
- Psalms 49:20A man who has riches without understanding is like the beasts that perish.
- Psalms 146:3Put not your trust in princes, in mortal man, who cannot save.
- Isaiah 2:22Put no more trust in man, who has only the breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?
- Isaiah 14:16Those who see you will stare; they will ponder your fate: “Is this the man who shook the earth and made the kingdoms tremble,
- Luke 12:20But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be required of you. Then who will own what you have accumulated?’
- Luke 16:22One day the beggar died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s side. And the rich man also died and was buried.
- James 1:11For 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.
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
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