Job 4:20 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

From morning to evening, they are shattered. They will disappear forever without anyone paying attention.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

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

ASV:

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

BBE:

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

DBY:

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

ERV:

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

JPS:

Betwixt morning and evening they are shattered; they perish for ever without any regarding it.

WBS:

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

WEB:

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

YLT:

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

Job 4:20 Cross References

XREF:

Job 14:2 "Like a flower he comes forth and withers. He also flees like a shadow and does not remain.

Job 14:20 "You forever overpower him and he departs; You change his appearance and send him away.

Job 20:7 He perishes forever like his refuse; Those who have seen him will say, 'Where is he?' (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

4:20 They are destroyed from {o} morning to evening: they perish for ever {p} without any regarding [it].
(o) They see death continually before their eyes and daily approaching them.
(p) No man for all this considers it.

WES:

4:20 Destroyed - All the day long, there is not a moment wherein man is not sinking towards death and corruption. Perish - In reference to this present worldly life, which when once lost is never recovered. Regarding - Heb. without putting the heart to it, this is so common a thing for all men, though never so high and great, to perish in this manner, that no man heeds it, but passes it by as a general accident not worthy of observation.

MHC:

4:12-21 Eliphaz relates a vision. When we are communing with our own hearts, and are still, Ps 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? How dreadful, then, the pride and presumption of man! How great the patience of God! Look upon man in his life. The very foundation of that cottage of clay in which man dwells, is in the dust, and it will sink with its own weight. We stand but upon the dust. Some have a higher heap of dust to stand upon than others but still it is the earth that stays us up, and will shortly swallow us up. Man is soon crushed; or if some lingering distemper, which consumes like a moth, be sent to destroy him, he cannot resist it. Shall such a creature pretend to blame the appointments of God? Look upon man in his death. Life is short, and in a little time men are cut off. Beauty, strength, learning, not only cannot secure them from death, but these things die with them; nor shall their pomp, their wealth, or power, continue after them. Shall a weak, sinful, dying creature, pretend to be more just than God, and more pure than his Maker? No: instead of quarrelling with his afflictions, let him wonder that he is out of hell. Can a man be cleansed without his Maker? Will God justify sinful mortals, and clear them from guilt? or will he do so without their having an interest in the righteousness and gracious help of their promised Redeemer, when angels, once ministering spirits before his throne, receive the just recompence of their sins? Notwithstanding the seeming impunity of men for a short time, though living without God in the world, their doom is as certain as that of the fallen angels, and is continually overtaking them. Yet careless sinners note it so little, that they expect not the change, nor are wise to consider their latter end.

CONC:

Beaten Betwixt Broken Completely Destroyed Dusk Evening Forever Heeding Morning Note Perish Pieces Regarding Shattered Smitten Takes Unnoticed Unobserved

Betwixt Broken Completely Dawn Destroyed Dusk End Evening Forever Heeding Morning Note Perish Pieces Regarding Shattered Smitten Unnoticed Unobserved

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