Job 4:20

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

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

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BSBPD

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

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

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

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

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

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

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

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Job 4:20 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. 2 Chronicles 15:6Nation was crushed by nation, and city by city, for God afflicted them with all kinds of adversity.
  2. 2 Chronicles 21:20Jehoram 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.
  3. Job 14:2Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.
  4. Job 14:14When a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait, until my renewal comes.
  5. Job 14:20You forever overpower him, and he passes on; You change his countenance and send him away.
  6. Job 16:22For when only a few years are past I will go the way of no return.
  7. Job 18:17The memory of him perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the land.
  8. Job 20:7he will perish forever, like his own dung; those who had seen him will ask, ‘Where is he?’
  9. Psalms 37:36yet he passed away and was no more; though I searched, he could not be found.
  10. Psalms 39:13Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may again be cheered before I depart and am no more.”
  11. Psalms 90:5You whisk them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning—
  12. Psalms 92:7that though the wicked sprout like grass, and all evildoers flourish, they will be forever destroyed.
  13. Proverbs 10:7The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.
  14. Isaiah 38:12My 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.

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