Scripture · Old Testament
Job 4:21
Job 4:21 is verse 21 of Job chapter 4, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Are not their tent cords pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?’
King James Version
Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.
World English Bible
Isn’t their tent cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.’
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Job 4:19–21 · Berean Standard Bible
19 how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!
20 They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; unnoticed, they perish forever.
21 Are not their tent cords pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?’
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Psalms 39:5You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah
Psalms 39:11You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah
Psalms 49:14Like sheep they are destined for Sheol. Death will be their shepherd. The upright will rule them in the morning, and their form will decay in Sheol, far from their lofty abode.
Psalms 146:3Put not your trust in princes, in mortal man, who cannot save.
Psalms 146:4When his spirit departs, he returns to the ground; on that very day his plans perish.
Isaiah 14:16Those who see you will stare; they will ponder your fate: “Is this the man who shook the earth and made the kingdoms tremble,
Luke 16:22One day the beggar died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s side. And the rich man also died and was buried.
Luke 16:23In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham from afar, with Lazarus by his side.
James 1:11For the sun rises with scorching heat and withers the plant; its flower falls and its beauty is lost. So too, the rich man will fade away in the midst of his pursuits.
Job 36:12But if they do not obey, then they perish by the sword and die without knowledge.
Psalms 49:20A man who has riches without understanding is like the beasts that perish.
Isaiah 2:22Put no more trust in man, who has only the breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?
Luke 12:20But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be required of you. Then who will own what you have accumulated?’