Job 4:21

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 36:12 : 12 But if not, they come to their end, and give up their breath without knowledge.
  • Job 8:22 : 22 Your haters will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the sinner will not be seen again.
  • Luke 16:22-23 : 22 And in time the poor man came to his end, and angels took him to Abraham's breast. And the man of wealth came to his end, and was put in the earth. 23 And in hell, being in great pain, lifting up his eyes he saw Abraham, far away, and Lazarus on his breast.
  • Jas 1:11 : 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.
  • Job 18:21 : 21 Truly, these are the houses of the sinner, and this is the place of him who has no knowledge of God.
  • Ps 39:5 : 5 You have made my days no longer than a hand's measure; and my years are nothing in your eyes; truly, every man is but a breath. (Selah.)
  • Ps 39:11 : 11 By the weight of your wrath against man's sin, the glory of his form is wasted away; truly every man is but a breath. (Selah.)
  • Ps 49:14 : 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 49:20 : 20 Man, like the animals, does not go on for ever; he comes to an end like the beasts.
  • Ps 146:3-4 : 3 Put not your faith in rulers, or in the son of man, in whom there is no salvation. 4 Man's breath goes out, he is turned back again to dust; in that day all his purposes come to an end.
  • Isa 2:22 : 22 Have no more to do with man, whose life is only a breath, for he is of no value.
  • Isa 14:16 : 16 Those who see you will be looking on you with care, they will be in deep thought, saying, Is this the troubler of the earth, the shaker of kingdoms?
  • Luke 12:20 : 20 But God said to him, You foolish one, tonight I will take your soul from you, and who then will be the owner of all the things which you have got together?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 4:19-20
    2 verses
    84%

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

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

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

  • 4 For they have no pain; their bodies are fat and strong.

  • 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
    74%

    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.

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

  • Job 21:21-23
    3 verses
    73%

    21 For what interest has he in his house after him, when the number of his months is ended?

    22 Is anyone able to give teaching to God? for he is the judge of those who are on high.

    23 One comes to his end in complete well-being, full of peace and quiet:

  • 10 For he sees that wise men come to their end, and foolish persons of low behaviour come to destruction together, letting their wealth go to others.

  • 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.

  • 2 No doubt you have knowledge, and wisdom will come to an end with you.

  • 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.

  • 7 Why is life given to the evil-doers? why do they become old and strong in power?

  • 20 From where then does wisdom come, and where is the resting-place of knowledge?

  • Job 14:10-11
    2 verses
    72%

    10 But man comes to his death and is gone: he gives up his spirit, and where is he?

    11 The waters go from a pool, and a river becomes waste and dry;

  • 16 Truly, is not their well-being in their power? (The purpose of the evil-doers is far from me.)

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

  • 16 Of the wise man, as of the foolish man, there is no memory for ever, seeing that those who now are will have gone from memory in the days to come. See how death comes to the wise as to the foolish!

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

  • 21 His sons come to honour, and he has no knowledge of it; they are made low, but he is not conscious of it.

  • Job 28:12-13
    2 verses
    71%

    12 But where may wisdom be seen? and where is the resting-place of knowledge?

    13 Man has not seen the way to it, and it is not in the land of the living.

  • 12 When it is still green, without being cut down, it becomes dry and dead before any other plant.

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

  • 23 He will come to his end for need of teaching; he is so foolish that he will go wandering from the right way.

  • 9 It is not the old who are wise, and those who are full of years have not the knowledge of what is right.

  • 6 In the morning it is green; in the evening it is cut down, and becomes dry.

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • 22 But God by his power gives long life to the strong; he gets up again, though he has no hope of life.

  • 1 Why are times not stored up by the Ruler of all, and why do those who have knowledge of him not see his days?

  • 1 The upright man goes to his death, and no one gives a thought to it; and god-fearing men are taken away, and no one is troubled by it; for the upright man is taken away because of evil-doing, and goes into peace.

  • Eccl 9:5-6
    2 verses
    70%

    5 The living are conscious that death will come to them, but the dead are not conscious of anything, and they no longer have a reward, because there is no memory of them.

    6 Their love and their hate and their envy are now ended; and they have no longer a part for ever in anything which is done under the sun.

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

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

  • 21 To those whose desire is for death, but it comes not; who are searching for it more than for secret wealth;

  • 24 Has not my hand been stretched out in help to the poor? have I not been a saviour to him in his trouble?

  • 20 He makes the words of responsible persons without effect, and takes away the good sense of the old;

  • 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.

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

  • 20 Man, like the animals, does not go on for ever; he comes to an end like the beasts.

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

  • 11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the desires of my heart.