Job 4:20

In 11 translations

BSB

They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; unnoticed, they perish forever.

KJV

They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.destroyed: Heb. beaten in pieces

WEB

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

ASV

Betwixt morning and evening they are destroyed: They perish for ever without any regarding it.

LSV

From morning to evening are beaten down, || Without any regarding, they perish forever.

YLT

From morning to evening are beaten down, Without any regarding, for ever they perish.

DBY

From morning to evening are they smitten: without any heeding it, they perish for ever.

DRC

From morning till evening they shall be cut down: and because no one understandeth, they shall perish for ever.

GNV

They be destroyed from the morning vnto the euening: they perish for euer, without regarde.

JPS

Betwixt morning and evening they are shattered; they perish for ever without any regarding it.

LXXE

And from morning to evening they no longer exist: they have perished, because they cannot help themselves.

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Original-language editions

WLC

מִבֹּ֣קֶר לָעֶ֣רֶב יֻכַּ֑תּוּ מִבְּלִ֥י מֵ֝שִׂ֗ים לָנֶ֥צַח יֹאבֵֽדוּ׃

LXX-Br

καὶ ἀπὸ πρωΐθεν μέχρι ἑσπέρας οὐκ ἔτι εἰσὶ, παρὰ τὸ μὴ δύνασθαι αὐτοὺς ἑαυτοῖς βοηθῆσαι, ἀπώλοντο.

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• Job 20:7he will perish forever, like his own dung; those who had seen him will ask, ‘Where is he?’
• Psalms 90:5–6You whisk them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning— in the morning it springs up new, but by evening it fades and withers.
• Job 14:2Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.
• Proverbs 10:7The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.
• Job 14:14When a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait, until my renewal comes.
• Isaiah 38:12–13My dwelling has been picked up and removed from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver; He cuts me off from the loom; from day until night You make an end of me. I composed myself until the…
• Job 14:20You forever overpower him, and he passes on; You change his countenance and send him away.
• Psalms 92:7that though the wicked sprout like grass, and all evildoers flourish, they will be forever destroyed.
• 2 Chronicles 21:20Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years. He died, to no one’s regret, and was buried in the City of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.
• Job 18:17The memory of him perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the land.
• Job 16:22For when only a few years are past I will go the way of no return.
• Psalms 39:13Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may again be cheered before I depart and am no more.”
• Psalms 37:36yet he passed away and was no more; though I searched, he could not be found.
• 2 Chronicles 15:6Nation was crushed by nation, and city by city, for God afflicted them with all kinds of adversity.

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