Job 4:21New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— ‘Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them? They die, yet without wisdom.’
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— Doth not their excellency [which is] in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them? they die, and that without wisdom.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— Doth not their excellence [which is] in them depart? they die, even without wisdom.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— Is not their tent-cord torn away in them? they die, and without wisdom.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— Is not their tent-rope within them, torn away? They die, disrobed of wisdom!
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— Hath not their excellency been removed with them? They die, and not in wisdom!
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— And they that shall be left, shall be taken away from them: they shall die, and not in wisdom.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— Doeth not their dignitie goe away with them? do they not die, ? that without wisdom?
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— Doeth not their excellencie [which is] in them, goe away? they die, euen without wisedome.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— Behold, their possessions are taken away from them; and the rest of them shall die without wisdom.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— For he blows upon them, and they are withered: they have perished for lack of wisdom.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— Doth not their excellency [which is] in them go away? they die, even without wisdom. |
Doth not
x3808 (3808) Complementלֹאlo'{lo}
lo; a primitive particle; not (the simple or abstract negation); by implication no; often used with other particles.
their excellency
3499 {3499} Primeיֶתֶרyether{yeh'-ther}
Properly an overhanging, that is, (by implication) an excess, superiority, remainder; also a small rope (as hanging free).
[ which is] in them go away?
5265 {5265} Primeנָסַעnaca`{naw-sah'}
A primitive root; properly to pull up, especially the tent pins, that is, start on a journey.
z8738 <8738> Grammar
Stem - Niphal (See H8833) Mood - Perfect (See H8816) Count - 1429
they die,
4191 {4191} Primeמָמוֹתmuwth{mooth}
A primitive root; to die (literally or figuratively); causatively to kill.
z8799 <8799> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Imperfect (See H8811) Count - 19885
even without
x3808 (3808) Complementלֹאlo'{lo}
lo; a primitive particle; not (the simple or abstract negation); by implication no; often used with other particles.
wisdom.
2451 {2451} Primeחָכְמָהchokmah{khok-maw'}
From H2449; wisdom (in a good sense). |
Job 4:21
_ _ their excellency — (Psalms 39:11; Psalms 146:4; 1 Corinthians 13:8). But Umbreit, by an Oriental image from a bow, useless because unstrung: “Their nerve, or string would be torn away.” Michaelis, better in accordance with Job 4:19, makes the allusion be to the cords of a tabernacle taken down (Isaiah 33:20).
_ _ they die, even without wisdom — rather, “They would perish, yet not according to wisdom,” but according to arbitrary choice, if God were not infinitely wise and holy. The design of the spirit is to show that the continued existence of weak man proves the inconceivable wisdom and holiness of God, which alone save man from ruin [Umbreit]. Bengel shows from Scripture that God’s holiness (Hebrew, kadosh) comprehends all His excellencies and attributes. De Wette loses the scope, in explaining it, of the shortness of man’s life, contrasted with the angels “before they have attained to wisdom.” |
Job 4:21
Excellency — Whatsoever is by common estimation excellent in men, all their natural, and moral, and civil accomplishments, as high birth, great riches, power and wisdom, these are so far from preserving men from perishing, that they perish themselves, together with those houses of clay in which they are lodged. Without wisdom — Even without having attained that only wisdom for which they came into the world. Shall such mean, weak, foolish, sinful, dying creatures as this, pretend to be more just than God, more pure than his maker? No: instead of quarrelling with his afflictions, let him admire that he is out of hell. |
Job 4:21
Doth not their excellency [which is] in them go away? they die, even without (q) wisdom.
(q) That is, before any of them were so wise, as to think of death. |
- excellency:
Psalms 39:5 Behold, thou hast made my days [as] an handbreadth; and mine age [is] as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state [is] altogether vanity. Selah.
Psalms 39:11 When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man [is] vanity. Selah.
Psalms 49:14 Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.
Psalms 146:3-4 Put not your trust in princes, [nor] in the son of man, in whom [there is] no help. ... His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.
Isaiah 14:16 They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, [and] consider thee, [saying, Is] this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;
Luke 16:22-23 And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried; ... And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
James 1:11 For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
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- die:
Job 36:12 But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.
Psalms 49:20 Man [that is] in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts [that] perish.
Isaiah 2:22 Cease ye from man, whose breath [is] in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?
Luke 12:20 But God said unto him, [Thou] fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?
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