Job 4:20

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

They are destroyed from morning to evening: 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 which have seen him shall say, Where is he?
Ps 37:36 : 36 Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought{H8762)} him, but he could not be found{H8738)}.
Ps 39:13 : 13 O spare me, that I may recover strength{H8686)}, before I go hence{H8799)}, and be no more.
Ps 90:5-6 : 5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood{H8804)}; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up{H8799)}. 6 In the morning it flourisheth{H8686)}, and groweth up{H8804)}; in the evening it is cut down{H8787)}, and withereth{H8804)}.
Ps 92:7 : 7 When the wicked spring{H8800)} as the grass, and when all the workers{H8802)} of iniquity do flourish{H8686)}; it is that they shall be destroyed{H8736)} for ever:
Prov 10:7 : 7 The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.
Isa 38:12-13 : 12 Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me. 13 I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
2 Chr 15:6 : 6 And nation was destroyed of nation, and city of 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 departed without being desired. Howbeit 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 appointed time will I wait, till my change 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 When a few years are come, then 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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