Job 4:20

20 Between dawn and dusk they are broken to pieces; unnoticed, they perish forever.

Job 4:20 in Other Translations

KJV
20 They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.
ESV
20 Between morning and evening they are beaten to pieces; they perish forever without anyone regarding it.
NLT
20 They are alive in the morning but dead by evening, gone forever without a trace.
MSG
20 These bodies of ours are here today and gone tomorrow, and no one even notices - gone without a trace.
CSB
20 They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; they perish forever while no one notices.

Job 4:20 In-Context

18 If God places no trust in his servants, if he charges his angels with error,
19 how much more those who live in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who are crushed more readily than a moth!
20 Between dawn and dusk they are broken to pieces; unnoticed, they perish forever.
21 Are not the cords of their tent pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?’

Cross References 1

  • 1. Job 14:2,20; Job 15:33; Job 20:7; Job 24:24; Psalms 89:47; Psalms 90:5-6; James 4:14
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