Job 4:21

World English Bible (2000)

Isn't their tent cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.'

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 36:12 : 12 But if they don't listen, they shall perish by the sword; they shall die without knowledge.
  • Job 8:22 : 22 Those who hate you shall be clothed with shame. The tent of the wicked shall be no more."
  • Luke 16:22-23 : 22 It happened that the beggar died, and that he was carried away by the angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried. 23 In Hades, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom.
  • Jas 1:11 : 11 For the sun arises with the scorching wind, and withers the grass, and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in his pursuits.
  • Job 18:21 : 21 Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous. This is the place of him who doesn't know God."
  • Ps 39:5 : 5 Behold, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath." Selah.
  • Ps 39:11 : 11 When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, You consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath." Selah.
  • Ps 49:14 : 14 They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. Their beauty shall decay in Sheol, far from their mansion.
  • Ps 49:20 : 20 A man who has riches without understanding, is like the animals that perish. A Psalm by Asaph.
  • Ps 146:3-4 : 3 Don't put your trust in princes, each a son of man in whom there is no help. 4 His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.
  • Isa 2:22 : 22 Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for of what account is he?
  • Isa 14:16 : 16 Those who see you will stare at you. They will ponder you, saying, "Is this the man who made the earth to tremble, who shook kingdoms;
  • Luke 12:20 : 20 "But God said to him, 'You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared--whose will they be?'

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 4:19-20
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    19 How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!

    20 Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.

  • 13 They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol.

  • 4 For there are no struggles in their death, but their strength is firm.

  • 20 In a moment they die, even at midnight. The people are shaken and pass away. The mighty are taken away without a hand.

  • Job 6:17-18
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    17 In the dry season, they vanish. When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

    18 The caravans that travel beside them turn aside. They go up into the waste, and perish.

  • 12 But man, despite his riches, doesn't endure. He is like the animals that perish.

  • Job 21:21-23
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    21 For what does he care for his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off?

    22 "Shall any teach God knowledge, since he judges those who are high?

    23 One dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.

  • 10 For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.

  • 24 They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone. Yes, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.

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

  • 14 They die in youth. Their life perishes among the unclean.

  • 7 "Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?

  • 20 Where then does wisdom come from? Where is the place of understanding?

  • Job 14:10-11
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    10 But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?

    11 As the waters fail from the sea, and the river wastes and dries up,

  • 16 Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

  • 2 He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn't continue.

  • 16 For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no memory for ever, since in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. Indeed, the wise man must die just like the fool!

  • 16 For the wind passes over it, and it is gone. Its place remembers it no more.

  • 21 His sons come to honor, and he doesn't know it. They are brought low, but he doesn't perceive it of them.

  • Job 28:12-13
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    12 "But where shall wisdom be found? Where is the place of understanding?

    13 Man doesn't know its price; Neither is it found in the land of the living.

  • 12 While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed.

  • 18 How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?

  • 23 He will die for lack of instruction. In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray.

  • 9 It is not the great who are wise, nor the aged who understand justice.

  • 6 In the morning it sprouts and springs up. By evening, it is withered and dry.

  • 4 His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.

  • 7 yet he shall perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him shall say, 'Where is he?'

  • 14 They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. Their beauty shall decay in Sheol, far from their mansion.

  • 19 How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.

  • 22 Yet God preserves the mighty by his power. He rises up who has no assurance of life.

  • 1 "Why aren't times laid up by the Almighty? Why don't those who know him see his days?

  • 1 The righteous perishes, and no man lays 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
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    5 For the living know that they will die, but the dead don't know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

    6 Also their love, their hatred, and their envy has perished long ago; neither have they any more a portion forever in anything that is done under the sun.

  • 18 They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

  • 4 Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.

  • 21 Who long for death, but it doesn't come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,

  • 24 "However doesn't one stretch out a hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?

  • 20 He removes the speech of those who are trusted, and takes away the understanding of the elders.

  • 11 For the sun arises with the scorching wind, and withers the grass, and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in his pursuits.

  • 26 They lie down alike in the dust. The worm covers them.

  • 20 A man who has riches without understanding, is like the animals that perish. A Psalm by Asaph.

  • 22 Yes, his soul draws near to the pit, and his life to the destroyers.

  • 11 My days are past, my plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart.