Job 4:21 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²¹ Their tent cord is plucked up within them, and they die devoid of wisdom.’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? They die, even without wisdom.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ Is not their tent cord plucked up within them [so that the tent falls]? Do they not die, and that without [acquiring] wisdom?

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.

Common English Bible

²¹ Isn’t their tent cord pulled up? They die without wisdom.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ But those who are left behind will be taken away from them; they will die, and not in wisdom.

Job 4:21 Cross References

Job 36:12

But if they do not listen, they shall perish by the sword and die without knowledge.

Job 8:22

Those who hate you will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked will be no more.”

James 1:11

For the sun rises with its scorching heat and withers the field; its flower falls, and its beauty perishes. It is the same way with the rich; in the midst of a busy life, they will wither away.

Luke 12:20

But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life is being demanded of you. And the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’

Isaiah 14:16

Those who see you will stare at you and ponder over you: “Is this the man who made the earth tremble, who shook kingdoms,

Isaiah 2:22

[[Turn away from mortals, who have only breath in their nostrils, for of what account are they?]]

Psalm 49:20

Mortals cannot abide in their pomp; they are like the animals that perish.

Psalm 49:14

Like sheep they are appointed for Sheol; Death shall be their shepherd; straight to the grave they descend, and their form shall waste away; Sheol shall be their home.

Psalm 39:11

“You chastise mortals in punishment for sin, consuming like a moth what is dear to them; surely everyone is a mere breath. Selah

Psalm 39:5

You have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing in your sight. Surely everyone stands as a mere breath. Selah

Job 18:21

Surely such are the dwellings of the ungodly; such is the place of those who do not know God.”

Proverbs 5:23

They die for lack of discipline, and because of their great folly they are lost.

Job 32:9

It is not the old who are wise nor the aged who understand what is right.