Job 4:21

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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  • Job 36:12 : 12 But if they hearken not, they shall perish by the sword, And they shall die without knowledge.
  • Job 8:22 : 22 They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; And the tent of the wicked shall be no more.
  • Luke 16:22-23 : 22 And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and that he was carried away by the angels into Abraham's bosom: and the rich man also died, and was buried. 23 And in Hades he lifted up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
  • Jas 1:11 : 11 For the sun ariseth with the scorching wind, and 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 goings.
  • Job 18:21 : 21 Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous, And this is the place of him that knoweth not God.
  • Ps 39:5 : 5 Behold, thou hast made my days [as] handbreadths; And my life-time is as nothing before thee: Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. {{Selah [
  • Ps 39:11 : 11 When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, Thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: Surely every man is vanity. {{Selah
  • Ps 49:14 : 14 They are appointed as a flock for Sheol; Death shall be their shepherd; And the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; And their beauty shall be for Sheol to consume, That there be no habitation for it.
  • Ps 49:20 : 20 Man that is in honor, and understandeth not, Is like the beasts that perish.
  • Ps 146:3-4 : 3 Put not your trust in princes, Nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. 4 His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; In that very day his thoughts perish.
  • Isa 2:22 : 22 Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for wherein is he to be accounted of?
  • Isa 14:16 : 16 They that see thee shall gaze at thee, they shall consider thee, [saying], Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;
  • Luke 12:20 : 20 But God said unto him, Thou foolish one, this night is thy soul required of thee; and the things which thou hast prepared, whose shall they be?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 4:19-20
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    84%

    19How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before the moth!

    20Betwixt morning and evening they are destroyed: They perish for ever without any regarding it.

  • 13They spend their days in prosperity, And in a moment they go down to Sheol.

  • 4For there are no pangs in their death; But their strength is firm.

  • 20In a moment they die, even at midnight; The people are shaken and pass away, And the mighty are taken away without hand.

  • Job 6:17-18
    2 verses
    74%

    17What time they wax warm, they vanish; When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

    18The caravans [that travel] by the way of them turn aside; They go up into the waste, and perish.

  • 12But man [being] in honor abideth not: He is like the beasts that perish.

  • Job 21:21-23
    3 verses
    73%

    21For what careth he for his house after him, When the number of his months is cut off?

    22Shall any teach God knowledge, Seeing he judgeth those that are high?

    23One dieth in his full strength, Being wholly at ease and quiet:

  • 10For he shall see it. Wise men die; The fool and the brutish alike perish, And leave their wealth to others.

  • 24They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone; Yea, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others, And are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.

  • 2No doubt but ye are the people, And wisdom shall die with you.

  • 14They die in youth, And their life [perisheth] among the unclean.

  • 7Wherefore do the wicked live, Become old, yea, wax mighty in power?

  • 20Whence then cometh wisdom? And where is the place of understanding?

  • Job 14:10-11
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    10But man dieth, and is laid low: Yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?

    11[ As] the waters fail from the sea, And the river wasteth and drieth up;

  • 16Lo, their prosperity is not in their hand: The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

  • 2He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

  • 16For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no remembrance for ever; seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. And how doth the wise man die even as the fool!

  • 16For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; And the place thereof shall know it no more.

  • 21His sons come to honor, and he knoweth it not; And they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.

  • Job 28:12-13
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    71%

    12But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding?

    13Man knoweth not the price thereof; Neither is it found in the land of the living.

  • 12Whilst it is yet in its greenness, [and] not cut down, It withereth before any [other] herb.

  • 18That they are as stubble before the wind, And as chaff that the storm carrieth away?

  • 23He shall die for lack of instruction; And in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

  • 9It is not the great that are wise, Nor the aged that understand justice.

  • 6In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; In the evening it is cut down, and withereth.

  • 4His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; In that very day his thoughts perish.

  • 7Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: They that have seen him shall say, Where is he?

  • 14They are appointed as a flock for Sheol; Death shall be their shepherd; And the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; And their beauty shall be for Sheol to consume, That there be no habitation for it.

  • 19How are they become a desolation in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors.

  • 22Yet [God] preserveth the mighty by his power: He riseth up that hath no assurance of life.

  • 1Why are times not laid up by the Almighty? And why do not they that know him see his days?

  • 1The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart; and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil [to come] .

  • Eccl 9:5-6
    2 verses
    70%

    5For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

    6As well their love, as their hatred and their envy, is perished long ago; neither have they any more a portion for ever in anything that is done under the sun.

  • 18They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

  • 4Man is like to vanity: His days are as a shadow that passeth away.

  • 21Who long for death, but it cometh not, And dig for it more than for hid treasures;

  • 24Howbeit doth not one stretch out the hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?

  • 20He removeth the speech of the trusty, And taketh away the understanding of the elders.

  • 11For the sun ariseth with the scorching wind, and 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 goings.

  • 26They lie down alike in the dust, And the worm covereth them.

  • 20Man that is in honor, and understandeth not, Is like the beasts that perish.

  • 22Yea, his soul draweth near unto the pit, And his life to the destroyers.

  • 11My days are past, my purposes are broken off, Even the thoughts of my heart.