Job 4:20

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

מִבֹּ֣קֶר לָעֶ֣רֶב יֻכַּ֑תּוּ מִבְּלִ֥י מֵ֝שִׂ֗ים לָנֶ֥צַח יֹאבֵֽדוּ׃

Transliteration

From mib-bōqer to lā-ʿereb yukkattû from without mibblî mēśîm forever lā-neṣaḥ yōʾbēdû

Grammar Details

*mib-bōqer*: preposition + noun, masculine singular - from morning
*lā-ʿereb*: preposition + noun, masculine singular - to evening
*yukkattû*: Hophal imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural - they are broken
*mibblî*: preposition + negative particle - from without
*mēśîm*: Hiphil participle, masculine singular - one who sets/places
*lā-neṣaḥ*: preposition + noun, masculine singular - forever
*yōʾbēdû*: Qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural - they perish

Word Meanings

*bōqer*: morning/daybreak/dawn
*ʿereb*: evening/sunset/night
*yukkattû*: to be broken/crushed/beaten
*mēśîm*: one who sets/places/considers
*neṣaḥ*: forever/eternity/perpetuity
*yōʾbēdû*: to perish/be destroyed/be lost

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Referenced Verses

Job 20:7 : 7 Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: They that have seen him shall say, Where is he?
Ps 37:36 : 36 But one passed by, and, lo, he was not: Yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
Ps 39:13 : 13 Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, Before I go hence, and be no more.
Ps 90:5-6 : 5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: In the morning they are like grass which groweth up. 6 In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; In the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
Ps 92:7 : 7 When the wicked spring as the grass, And when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; It is that they shall be destroyed for ever.
Prov 10:7 : 7 The memory of the righteous is blessed; But the name of the wicked shall rot.
Isa 38:12-13 : 12 My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me as a shepherd's tent: I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life; he will cut me off from the loom: From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me. 13 I quieted [myself] until morning; as a lion, so he breaketh all my bones: From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
2 Chr 15:6 : 6 And they were broken in pieces, nation against nation, and city against city; for God did vex them with all adversity.
2 Chr 21:20 : 20 Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years: and he departed without being desired; and they buried him in the city of David, but not in the sepulchres of the kings.
Job 14:2 : 2 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
Job 14:14 : 14 If a man die, shall he live [again]? All the days of my warfare would I wait, Till my release should come.
Job 14:20 : 20 Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth; Thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.
Job 16:22 : 22 For when a few years are come, I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
Job 18:17 : 17 His remembrance shall perish from the earth, And he shall have no name in the street.

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