Job 4:21 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

Job 4:21 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 36:12
But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.
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; …
Job 8:22
They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.
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 146:3-4
Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. …

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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. 21)

21. their excellency--(Psa 39:11; 146:4; 1Co 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 (Is 33:20). they die, even without wisdom--rather, “They would perish, yet not according to wisdom,” but according to arbi…