Job 4:21

Authorized King James Version (1611)

Doth not their excellency [which is] in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.

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  • Job 36:12 : 12 But if they obey 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 dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.
  • Luke 16:22-23 : 22 ‹And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;› 23 ‹And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.›
  • Jas 1:11 : 11 For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it 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 ways.
  • Job 18:21 : 21 Surely such [are] the dwellings of the wicked, and this [is] the place [of him that] knoweth not God.
  • Ps 39:5 : 5 Behold, thou hast made my days [as] an handbreadth; and mine age [is] as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state [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 Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.
  • Ps 49:20 : 20 Man [that is] in honour, 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 narrowly look upon thee, [and] 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] ‹fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?›

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  • Job 4:19-20
    2 verses
    84%

    19How much less [in] them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation [is] in the dust, [which] are crushed before the moth?

    20They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding [it].

  • 13They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.

  • 4For [there are] no bands in their death: but their strength [is] firm.

  • 20In a moment shall they die, and the people shall be troubled at midnight, and pass away: and the mighty shall be 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 paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.

  • 12Nevertheless man [being] in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts [that] perish.

  • Job 21:21-23
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    21For what pleasure [hath] he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?

    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 seeth [that] wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.

  • 24They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all [other], and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.

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

  • 14They die in youth, and their life [is] among the unclean.

  • 7¶ Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?

  • 20¶ Whence then cometh wisdom? and where [is] the place of understanding?

  • Job 14:10-11
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    72%

    10But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where [is] he?

    11[As] the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:

  • 16Lo, their good [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 [there is] no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now [is] in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise [man]? 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 honour, and he knoweth [it] not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth [it] not of them.

  • Job 28:12-13
    2 verses
    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 his greenness, [and] not cut down, it withereth before any [other] herb.

  • 18They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.

  • 23He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

  • 9Great men are not [always] wise: neither do the aged understand judgment.

  • 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.

  • 7[Yet] he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where [is] he?

  • 14Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.

  • 19How are they [brought] into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.

  • 22He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no [man] is sure of life.

  • 1¶ Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?

  • 1¶ The 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 any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

    6Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any [thing] that is done under the sun.

  • 18They [are] vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

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

  • 21Which long for death, but it [cometh] not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;

  • 24Howbeit he will not stretch out [his] hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.

  • 20He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the understanding of the aged.

  • 11For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it 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 ways.

  • 26They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.

  • 20Man [that is] in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts [that] perish.

  • 22Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers.

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