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Myles Coverdale Bible
Job 4:20
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They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk;they perish forever while no one notices.
Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.
They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.
Between morning and evening they are beaten to pieces; they perish forever without anyone regarding it.
Between dawn and sunset many people are broken to pieces; without being noticed, they die and are gone forever.
They are destroyed between morning and evening; they perish forever without anyone regarding it.
'Between morning and evening they are broken in pieces and destroyed; Unobserved and unnoticed, they perish forever.
'Between morning and evening they are broken in pieces; Unregarded, they perish forever.
Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.
They be destroyed from the morning vnto the euening: they perish for euer, without regarde.
Between morning and evening they are broken in pieces;Unobserved, they perish forever.
They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; unnoticed, they perish forever.
Born after daybreak, you die before nightfall and disappear forever.
shattered between morning and evening; they perish forever, and no one takes notice.
From morning to evening are they smitten: without any heeding it, they perish for ever.
From dawn to sunset people are destroyed. They die—gone forever—and no one even notices.
They shall be afflicted from morning to evening, that they may not dwell for ever; yea, they shall perish.
We may be alive in the morning, but die unnoticed before evening comes.
Between morning and evening they are destroyed; without anyone regarding it they perish forever.
They are shattered from morning till evening; they perish forever with no one regarding.
Betwixt morning and evening they are destroyed: They perish for ever without any regarding it.
Between morning and evening they are completely broken; they come to an end for ever, and no one takes note.
They shalbe smitten from the morning vnto the euening: yea they shall perishe for euer, when no man regardeth them.
Betwixt morning and evening they are shattered; they perish for ever without any regarding it.
They are destroyed from morning to euening: they perish for euer, without any regarding it.
And from the morning to evening they no longer exist: they have perished, because they cannot help themselves.
Betwixt morning and evening they are destroyed: they perish for ever without any regarding it.
Fro morewtid til to euentid thei schulen be kit doun; and for no man vndurstondith, thei schulen perische with outen ende.
Between morning and evening they are destroyed: They perish forever without any regarding it.
They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding [it].
They are broken in pieces from morning till evening; They perish forever, with no one regarding.
They are alive in the morning but dead by evening, gone forever without a trace.
Between morning and evening they are destroyed. Without anyone seeing it they become lost forever.
Between morning and evening they are destroyed; they perish forever without any regarding it.
Betwixt morning and evening, are they broken in pieces, With none to save, they utterly perish:
From morning till evening they shall be cut down: and because no one understandeth, they shall perish for ever.
Between morning and evening they are destroyed; they perish for ever without any regarding it.
From morning to evening are beaten down, Without any regarding, for ever they perish.
'Between morning and evening they are broken in pieces; Unobserved, they perish forever.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
destroyed: Heb. beaten in pieces, 2 Chronicles 15:6, *marg
from morning: Isaiah 38:12, Isaiah 38:13
they perish: Job 14:14, Job 16:22, Psalms 39:13, Psalms 92:7
without: Job 18:17, Job 20:7, 2 Chronicles 21:20, Psalms 37:36, Proverbs 10:7
Reciprocal: Ecclesiastes 12:7 - dust Luke 8:42 - and she
Cross-References
And she proceaded forth, & bare his brother Abell. And Abell became a shepherde, but Cain became an hußbande man.
And Abell brought also of the firstlinges of his shepe, and of ye fat of them. And the LORDE had respecte vnto Abell and to his offerynge:
but vnto Cain and his offerynge he loked not. Then was Cain exceadinge wroth, and his countenaunce chaunged.
Then sayde the LORDE vnto Cain: Where is Abell thy brother? He sayde: I can not tell. Am I my brothers keper?
And he sayde: What hast thou done? The voyce of thy brothers bloude crieth vnto me out of the earth.
And now shalt thou be cursed vpon the earth, which hath opened hir mouth, and receaued thy brothers bloude of thine hande.
Whan thou tyllest ye grounde, she shall henßforth not geue hir power vnto the. A vagabunde and a rennagate shalt thou be vpon ye earth.
And his brothers name was Iuball: Of him came they that occupied harpes & pypes.
And whan the boies were growne vp, Esau became an hunter, & an hußbande man. As for Iacob, he was a symple man, and dwelt in the tentes.
Ye are of the father the deuell, and after the lustes of youre father wyl ye do. The same was a murthurer from the begynnynge, and abode not in the trueth: for the trueth is not in him. Whan he speaketh a lye, then speaketh he of his awne: for he is a lyar, and a father of the same.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
They are destroyed from morning to evening,.... That is, those that dwell in houses of clay, before described; the meaning is, that they are always exposed to death, and liable to it every day they live; not only such who are persecuted for the sake of religion, but all men in common, for of such are both the text and context; who have always the seeds of mortality and death in them, that is continually working in them; and every day, even from morning to evening, are innumerable instances of the power of death over men; and not only some there are, whose sun rises in the morning and sets at evening, who are like grass in the morning, gay, and green, and by evening cut down and withered, live but a day, and some not that, but even it is true of all men, comparatively speaking, they begin to die the day they begin to live; so that the wise man takes no notice of any intermediate time between a time to be born and a time to die, Ecclesiastes 3:2; so frail and short is the life of man; his days are but as an hand's breadth,
Psalms 39:5;
they perish for ever: which is not to be understood of the second or eternal death which some die; for this is not the case of all; those that believe in Christ shall not perish for ever, but have everlasting life; but this respects not only the long continuance of men under the power of death until the resurrection, which is not contradicted by thus expression; but it signifies that the dead never return to this mortal life again, at least the instances are very rare; their families, friends, and houses, that knew them, know them no more; they return no more to their worldly business or enjoyments, see Job 7:9;
without any regarding [it]; their death; neither they themselves nor others, expecting it so soon, and using no means to prevent it, and which, if made use of, would not have availed, their appointed time being come; or "without putting" k, either without putting light into them, as Sephorno, which can only be true of some; or with out putting the hand, either their own or another's, to destroy them, being done by the hand of God, by a distemper of his sending, or by one providence or another; or without putting the heart to it, which comes to the sense of our version; though death is so frequent every day, yet it is not taken notice of; men do not lay it to heart, so as to consider of their latter end, and repent of their sins, and reform from them, that they may not be their ruin; and this is and would be the case of all men, were it not for the grace of God.
k מבלי משים "propter non ponentem", Montanus; "sub. manum", Codurcus; "cor", R. Levi, Jarchi, Mercerus, Piscator, Michaelis.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
They are destroyed from morning to evening - Margin, “beaten in pieces.” This is nearer to the Hebrew. The phrase “from morning to evening” means between the morning and the evening; that is, they live scarcely a single day; see the notes at Isaiah 38:12. The idea is, not the continuance of the work of destruction from morning to evening; but that man’s life is excecdingly short, so short that he scarce seems to live from morning to night. What a beautiful expression, and how true! How little qualified is such a being to sit in judgment on the doings of the Most High!
They perish forever - Without being restored to life. They pass away, and nothing is ever seen of them again!
Without any regarding it - Without its being noticed. How strikingly true is this! What a narrow circle is affected by the death of a man, and how soon does even that circle cease to be affected! A few relatives and friends feel it and weep over the loss; but the mass of men are unconcerned. It is like taking a grain of sand from the sea-shore, or a drop of water from the ocean. There is indeed one less, but the place is soon supplied, and the ocean rolls on its tumultuous billows as though none had been taken away. So with human life. The affairs of people will roll on; the world will be as busy, and active, and thoughtless as though we had not been; and soon, O how painfully soon to human pride, will our names be forgotten! The circle of friends will cease to weep, and then cease to remember us. The last memorial that we lived, will be gone. The house that we built, the bed on which we slept, the counting-room that we occupied, the monuments that we raised, the books that we made, the stone that we directed to be placed over our graves, will all be gone; and the last memento that we ever lived, will have faded away! How vain is man! How vain is pride! How foolish is ambition! How important the announcement that there is another world, where we may live on forever!
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 4:20. They are destroyed from morning to evening — In almost every moment of time some human being comes into the world, and some one departs from it. Thus are they "destroyed from morning to evening."
They perish for ever — יאבדו yobedu; peribunt, they pass by; they go out of sight; they moulder with the dust, and are soon forgotten. Who regards the past generation now among the dead?
Isaiah has a similar thought, Isaiah 57:1: "The righteous perisheth, and No MAN LAYETH IT TO HEART: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come." Some think that Isaiah borrowed from Job; this will appear possible when it has been proved, which has never yet been done, that the writer of this book flourished before Isaiah. If, however, he borrowed the above thought, it must be allowed that it has been wondrously improved by coming through his hands.
