KJV King James Version
Doth not their excellency [which is] in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.
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Job 4:21
Doth not their excellency [which is] in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Are not their tent cords pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?’
WEB World English Bible
Isn’t their tent cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.’
ASV American Standard Version
Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Hath not their excellency been removed with them? They die, and not in wisdom!
Surrounding context — Job 4
18 Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly:
19 How much less [in] them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation [is] in the dust, [which] are crushed before the moth?
20 They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding [it].
21 Doth not their excellency [which is] in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.
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Job 36:12But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.Psalm 39:11When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man [is] vanity. Selah.Luke 16:22-23And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham’s bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;Job 8:22They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.Psalm 39:5Behold, thou hast made my days [as] an handbreadth; and mine age [is] as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state [is] altogether vanity. Selah.Luke 12:20But God said unto him, [Thou] fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?James 1:11For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.Isaiah 2:22Cease ye from man, whose breath [is] in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?Psalm 49:14Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.Psalm 49:20Man [that is] in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts [that] perish.Job 18:21Surely such [are] the dwellings of the wicked, and this [is] the place [of him that] knoweth not God.Isaiah 14:16They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, [and] consider thee, [saying, Is] this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;Psalm 146:3-4Put not your trust in princes, [nor] in the son of man, in whom [there is] no help.
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