Job 4:21

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

Job 18:21

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

Job 32:9

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

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.”

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

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 49:20

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

Proverbs 5:23

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

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?]]

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?’

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.