Job 4:20
Good News Translation
We may be alive in the morning, but die unnoticed before evening comes.

New Revised Standard Version
Between morning and evening they are destroyed; they perish forever without any regarding it.

Contemporary English Version
Born after daybreak, you die before nightfall and disappear forever.

New American Bible
Morning or evening they may be shattered; unnoticed, they perish forever.

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

destroyed.

2 Chronicles 15:6 For nation shall fight against nation, and city against city, for the Lord will trouble them with all distress.

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from morning.

Isaiah 38:12,13 My generation is at an end, and it is rolled away from me, as a shepherd's tent. My life is cut off, as by a weaver: whilst I was yet but beginning, he cut me off: from morning even to night thou wilt make an end of me. . . .

they perish.

Job 14:14 Shall man that is dead, thinkest thou, live again? all the days in which I am now in warfare, I expect until my change come.

Job 16:22 For behold short years pass away, and I am walking in a path by which I shall not return.

Psalm 39:13 O forgive me, that I may be refreshed, before I go hence, and be no more.

Psalm 92:7 When the wicked shall spring up as grass: and all the workers of iniquity shall appear: That they may perish for ever and ever:

without.

Job 18:17 Let the memory of him perish from the earth, and let not his name be renowned in the streets.

Job 20:7 In the end he shall be destroyed like a dunghill, and they that had seen him, shall say: Where is he?

2 Chronicles 21:20 He was two and thirty years old when he began his reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. And he walked not rightly, and they buried him in the city of David: but not in the sepulchres of the kings.

Psalm 37:36 And I passed by, and lo, he was not: and I sought him and his place was not found.

Proverbs 10:7 The wise of heart receiveth precepts: a fool is beaten with lips.

Context
Eliphaz: The Innocent Prosper
19How much more shall they that dwell in houses of clay, who have an earthly foundation, be consumed as with the moth? 20From morning till evening they shall be cut down: and because no one understandeth, they shall perish for ever.21And they that shall be left, shall be taken away from them: they shall die, and not in wisdom.…
Cross References
Job 14:2
Who cometh forth like a flower, and is destroyed, and fleeth as a shadow, and never continueth in the same state.

Job 14:20
Thou hast strengthened him for a little while, that he may pass away for ever: thou shalt change his face, and shalt send him away.

Job 20:7
In the end he shall be destroyed like a dunghill, and they that had seen him, shall say: Where is he?

Isaiah 38:12
My generation is at an end, and it is rolled away from me, as a shepherd's tent. My life is cut off, as by a weaver: whilst I was yet but beginning, he cut me off: from morning even to night thou wilt make an end of me.

Job 4:19
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