Job 4:21

In 11 translations

BSB

Are not their tent cords pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?’

KJV

Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.

WEB

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

ASV

Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.

LSV

Has their excellence not been removed with them? They die, and not in wisdom!”

YLT

Hath not their excellency been removed with them? They die, and not in wisdom!

DBY

Is not their tent-cord torn away in them? they die, and without wisdom.

DRC

And they that shall be left, shall be taken away from them: they shall die, and not in wisdom.

GNV

Doeth not their dignitie goe away with them? do they not die, and that without wisdom?

JPS

Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.'

LXXE

For he blows upon them, and they are withered: they have perished for lack of wisdom.

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WLC

הֲלֹא־נִסַּ֣ע יִתְרָ֣ם בָּ֑ם יָ֝מ֗וּתוּ וְלֹ֣א בְחָכְמָֽה׃

LXX-Br

Ἐνεφύσησε γὰρ αὐτοῖς καὶ ἐξηράνθησαν, ἀπώλοντο παρὰ τὸ μὴ ἔχειν αὐτοὺς σοφίαν.

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• Job 36:12But if they do not obey, then they perish by the sword and die without knowledge.
• Luke 16:22–23One day the beggar died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s side. And the rich man also died and was buried. In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham from afar, with Lazarus by his side.
• 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
• Job 8:22Your enemies will be clothed in shame, and the tent of the wicked will be no more.”
• Job 18:21Surely such is the dwelling of the wicked and the place of one who does not know God.”
• Psalms 49:20A man who has riches without understanding is like the beasts that perish.
• 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?’
• 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.
• Psalms 146:3–4Put not your trust in princes, in mortal man, who cannot save. When his spirit departs, he returns to the ground; on that very day his plans perish.
• 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
• 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,
• 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.
• Isaiah 2:22Put no more trust in man, who has only the breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?

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