Job 4:20 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁰They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.

Job 4:20 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 20:7
Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?
Job 18:17
His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.
Job 16:22
When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
Job 14:20
Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.
Job 14:2
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 12-21)

Eliphaz, having undertaken to convince Job of the sin and folly of his discontent and impatience, here vouches a vision he had been favoured with, which he relates to Job for his conviction. What comes immediately from God all men will pay a particular deference to, and Job, no doubt, as much as any. Some think Eliphaz had this vision now lately, since he came to Job, putting words into his mouth…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 20)

20. from morning to evening--unceasingly; or, better, between the morning and evening of one short day (so Ex 18:14; Is 38:12). They are destroyed--better, “they would be destroyed,” if God withdrew His loving protection. Therefore man must not think to be holy before God, but to draw holiness and all things else from God (Job 4:17).