Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
They are defeated between morning and evening; they perish forever and no one notices!
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.
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.
Bible in Basic English
Between morning and evening they are completely broken; they come to an end for ever, and no one takes note.
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 less confidence does he have in those who dwell in houses of clay; who were formed from a foundation in dust and can perish like a moth? 20 They are defeated between morning and evening; they perish forever and no one notices! 21 Their wealth perishes with them, doesn't it? They die, and do so without having wisdom, don't they?"
Phrases
Cross References
Job 20:7
he'll perish forever, like his own excrement; those who saw him will ask, "Where is he?'
2 Chronicles 15:6
Nation battled nation, and city fought city, because God was afflicting them all with every kind of distress.
2 Chronicles 21:20
Jehoram was 32 years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem for eight years. He left this earth to nobody's regret and they buried him in the City of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.
Job 14:2
He springs up like a flower and then withers. Like a shadow, he disappears and doesn't last.
Job 14:14
If a human being dies, will he live again? I will endure the entire time of my assigned service, until I am changed.
Job 14:20
You overpower him once and for all, and then he departs; you change his appearance and then send him away.
Job 16:22
For when only a few years have elapsed, I'll start down a path from which I'll never return."
Job 18:17
No one remembers him anywhere in the land; no one names streets in his honor.
Psalm 37:36
But then he passed away; in fact, he simply was not there. When I looked for him, he could not be found.
Psalm 39:13
Stop looking at me with chastisement, so I can smile again, before I depart and am no more. To the Director: A Davidic Psalm.
Psalm 90:5-6
You will sweep them away while they are asleep by morning they are like growing grass.
Psalm 92:7
Though the wicked sprout like grass; and all who practice iniquity flourish, it is they who will be eternally destroyed.
Proverbs 10:7
The reputation of the righteous leads to blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.
Isaiah 38:12-13
My house has been plucked up and vanishes from me like a shepherd's tent; like a weaver, I've taken account of my life, and he cuts me off from the loom day and night you make an end of me.