Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
Between morning and evening they are completely broken; they come to an end for ever, and no one takes note.
New American Standard Bible
Unobserved, they
King James Version
They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.
Holman Bible
they perish forever while no one notices.
International Standard Version
They are defeated between morning and evening; they perish forever and no one notices!
A Conservative Version
Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.
American Standard Version
Betwixt morning and evening they are destroyed: They perish for ever without any regarding it.
Amplified
‘Between morning and evening they are broken in pieces and destroyed;
Unobserved and unnoticed, they perish forever.
Darby Translation
From morning to evening are they smitten: without any heeding it, they perish for ever.
Julia Smith Translation
From morning to evening they will be struck; from not setting to superintend they will perish.
King James 2000
They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish forever without any regarding it.
Lexham Expanded Bible
{Between morning and evening} they are destroyed; without [anyone] regarding [it] they perish forever.
Modern King James verseion
They are destroyed from morning till evening; they perish forever without anyone caring.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
They shall be destroyed from morning unto the evening: yea, they shall perish everlastingly, and no man think thereon.
NET Bible
They are destroyed between morning and evening; they perish forever without anyone regarding it.
New Heart English Bible
Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.
The Emphasized Bible
Betwixt morning and evening, are they broken in pieces, With none to save, they utterly perish:
Webster
They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.
World English Bible
Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.
Youngs Literal Translation
From morning to evening are beaten down, Without any regarding, for ever they perish.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 4:20
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Secret Was Told To Me
19 How much more those living in houses of earth, whose bases are in the dust! They are crushed more quickly than an insect; 20 Between morning and evening they are completely broken; they come to an end for ever, and no one takes note. 21 If their tent-cord is pulled up, do they not come to an end, and without wisdom?
Phrases
Cross References
Job 20:7
Like the waste from his body he comes to an end for ever: those who have seen him say, Where is he?
2 Chronicles 15:6
And they were broken by divisions, nation against nation and town against town, because God sent all sorts of trouble on them.
2 Chronicles 21:20
He was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for eight years: and at his death he was not regretted; they put his body into the earth in the town of David, but not in the resting-place of the kings.
Job 14:2
He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again.
Job 14:14
If death takes a man, will he come to life again? All the days of my trouble I would be waiting, till the time came for me to be free.
Job 14:20
You overcome him for ever, and he is gone; his face is changed in death, and you send him away.
Job 16:22
For in a short time I will take the journey from which I will not come back.
Job 18:17
His memory is gone from the earth, and in the open country there is no knowledge of his name.
Psalm 37:36
But he came to an end, and there was no sign of him; I made a search for him and he was not there.
Psalm 39:13
Let your wrath be turned away from me, so that I may be comforted, before I go away from here, and become nothing.
Proverbs 10:7
The memory of the upright is a blessing, but the name of the evil-doer will be turned to dust.
Isaiah 38:12-13
My resting-place is pulled up and taken away from me like a herdsman's tent: my life is rolled up like a linen-worker's thread; I am cut off from the cloth on the frame: from day even to night you give me up to pain.