Job 4:20

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 20:7 : 7 Like the waste from his body he comes to an end for ever: those who have seen him say, Where is he?
  • Ps 37:36 : 36 But he came to an end, and there was no sign of him; I made a search for him and he was not there.
  • Ps 39:13 : 13 Let your wrath be turned away from me, so that I may be comforted, before I go away from here, and become nothing.
  • Ps 90:5-6 : 5 ... 6 In the morning it is green; in the evening it is cut down, and becomes dry.
  • Ps 92:7 : 7 When the sinners come up like the grass, and all the workers of evil do well for themselves, it is so that their end may be eternal destruction.
  • Prov 10:7 : 7 The memory of the upright is a blessing, but the name of the evil-doer will be turned to dust.
  • Isa 38:12-13 : 12 My resting-place is pulled up and taken away from me like a herdsman's tent: my life is rolled up like a linen-worker's thread; I am cut off from the cloth on the frame: from day even to night you give me up to pain. 13 I am crying out with pain till the morning; it is as if a lion was crushing all my bones.
  • 2 Chr 15:6 : 6 And they were broken by divisions, nation against nation and town against town, because God sent all sorts of trouble on them.
  • 2 Chr 21:20 : 20 He was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for eight years: and at his death he was not regretted; they put his body into the earth in the town of David, but not in the resting-place of the kings.
  • Job 14:2 : 2 He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again.
  • Job 14:14 : 14 If death takes a man, will he come to life again? All the days of my trouble I would be waiting, till the time came for me to be free.
  • Job 14:20 : 20 You overcome him for ever, and he is gone; his face is changed in death, and you send him away.
  • Job 16:22 : 22 For in a short time I will take the journey from which I will not come back.
  • Job 18:17 : 17 His memory is gone from the earth, and in the open country there is no knowledge of his name.

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    21 If their tent-cord is pulled up, do they not come to an end, and without wisdom?

  • Job 4:19
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    19 How much more those living in houses of earth, whose bases are in the dust! They are crushed more quickly than an insect;

  • Ps 73:19-20
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    79%

    19 How suddenly are they wasted! fears are the cause of their destruction.

    20 As a dream when one is awake, they are ended; they are like an image gone out of mind when sleep is over.

  • Job 34:20
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    20 Suddenly they come to an end, even in the middle of the night: the blow comes on the men of wealth, and they are gone, and the strong are taken away without the hand of man.

  • Job 6:17-18
    2 verses
    78%

    17 Under the burning sun they are cut off, and come to nothing because of the heat.

    18 The camel-trains go out of their way; they go up into the waste and come to destruction.

  • Ps 90:5-6
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    6 In the morning it is green; in the evening it is cut down, and becomes dry.

  • Job 24:16-18
    3 verses
    76%

    16 In the dark he makes holes in the walls of houses: in the daytime they are shutting themselves up, they have no knowledge of the light.

    17 For the middle of the night is as morning to them, they are not troubled by the fear of the dark.

    18 They go quickly on the face of the waters; their heritage is cursed in the earth; the steps of the crusher of grapes are not turned to their vine-garden.

  • Job 21:18
    75%

    18 How frequently are they as dry stems before the wind, or as grass taken away by the storm-wind?

  • Job 24:24
    75%

    24 For a short time they are lifted up; then they are gone; they are made low, they are pulled off like fruit, and like the heads of grain they are cut off.

  • Job 21:13
    75%

    13 Their days come to an end without trouble, and suddenly they go down to the underworld.

  • Job 4:9
    75%

    9 By the breath of God destruction takes them, and by the wind of his wrath they are cut off.

  • Isa 26:14
    74%

    14 The dead will not come back to life: their spirits will not come back to earth; for this cause you have sent destruction on them, so that the memory of them is dead.

  • Isa 17:14
    74%

    14 In the evening there is fear, and in the morning they are gone. This is the fate of those who take our goods, and the reward of those who violently take our property for themselves.

  • Ps 92:7
    74%

    7 When the sinners come up like the grass, and all the workers of evil do well for themselves, it is so that their end may be eternal destruction.

  • Job 20:7-8
    2 verses
    74%

    7 Like the waste from his body he comes to an end for ever: those who have seen him say, Where is he?

    8 He is gone like a dream, and is not seen again; he goes in flight like a vision of the night.

  • Ps 49:12
    73%

    12 But man, like the animals, does not go on for ever; he comes to an end like the beasts.

  • Jer 10:15
    73%

    15 They are nothing, a work of error: in the time of their punishment, destruction will overtake them.

  • Jer 51:18
    73%

    18 They are nothing, a work of error: in the time of their punishment, destruction will overtake them.

  • Ps 49:14
    73%

    14 Death will give them their food like sheep; the underworld is their fate and they will go down into it; their flesh is food for worms; their form is wasted away; the underworld is their resting-place for ever.

  • Ps 144:4
    73%

    4 Man is like a breath: his life is like a shade which is quickly gone.

  • Ps 103:16
    73%

    16 The wind goes over it and it is gone; and its place sees it no longer.

  • Job 34:25
    73%

    25 For he has knowledge of their works, overturning them in the night, so that they are crushed.

  • Job 36:14
    73%

    14 They come to their end while they are still young, their life is short like that of those who are used for sex purposes in the worship of their gods.

  • Job 22:16
    73%

    16 Who were violently taken away before their time, who were overcome by the rush of waters:

  • Ps 146:4
    73%

    4 Man's breath goes out, he is turned back again to dust; in that day all his purposes come to an end.

  • Ps 58:8
    72%

    8 Let them be like an after-birth which is turned to water and comes to an end; like the fruit of a woman who gives birth before her time, let them not see the sun.

  • Ps 28:5
    72%

    5 Because they have no respect for the works of the Lord, or for the things which his hands have made, they will be broken down and not lifted up by him.

  • Job 14:19
    72%

    19 The stones are crushed small by the force of the waters; the dust of the earth is washed away by their overflowing: and so you put an end to the hope of man.

  • Job 21:26
    72%

    26 Together they go down to the dust, and are covered by the worm.

  • Job 17:12
    72%

    12 They are changing night into day; they say, The light is near the dark.

  • Job 22:20
    72%

    20 Saying, Truly, their substance is cut off, and their wealth is food for the fire.

  • Nah 1:10
    72%

    10 For though they are like twisted thorns, and are overcome as with drink, they will come to destruction like stems of grass fully dry.

  • Job 14:2
    72%

    2 He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again.

  • Job 14:12
    72%

    12 So man goes down to his last resting-place and comes not again: till the heavens come to an end, they will not be awake or come out of their sleep.

  • Job 33:22
    71%

    22 And his soul comes near to the underworld, and his life to the angels of death.

  • Jer 4:20
    71%

    20 News is given of destruction on destruction; all the land is made waste: suddenly my tents, straight away my curtains, are made waste.

  • Jas 1:11
    71%

    11 For when the sun comes up with its burning heat, the grass gets dry and the grace of its form is gone with the falling flower; so the man of wealth comes to nothing in his ways.

  • Heb 1:11
    71%

    11 They will come to their end; but you are for ever; they will become old as a robe;

  • Isa 28:19
    71%

    19 Whenever they come through they will overtake you; for they will come through morning after morning, by day and by night: and the news will be nothing but fear.

  • Jer 12:4
    71%

    4 How long will the land have grief, and the plants of all the land be dry? because of the sins of the people living in it, destruction has overtaken the beasts and the birds; because they said, God does not see our ways.

  • Ps 37:2
    71%

    2 For they will quickly be cut down like grass, and become dry like the green plants.

  • Isa 40:24
    71%

    24 They have only now been planted, and their seed put into the earth, and they have only now taken root, when he sends out his breath over them and they become dry, and the storm-wind takes them away like dry grass.

  • Job 34:15
    71%

    15 All flesh would come to an end together, and man would go back to the dust.

  • Job 9:26
    71%

    26 They go rushing on like reed-boats, like an eagle dropping suddenly on its food.