Job 4:21

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Summary

Job 4:21

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

Excellency

Die

Bible References

Excellency

You have made my days no longer than a hand's measure; and my years are nothing in your eyes; truly, every man is but a breath. (Selah.)

Death will give them their food like sheep; the underworld is their fate and they will go down into it; their flesh is food for worms; their form is wasted away; the underworld is their resting-place for ever.

Put not your faith in rulers, or in the son of man, in whom there is no salvation.

Those who see you will be looking on you with care, they will be in deep thought, saying, Is this the troubler of the earth, the shaker of kingdoms?

And in time the poor man came to his end, and angels took him to Abraham's breast. And the man of wealth came to his end, and was put in the earth.

For when the sun comes up with its burning heat, the grass gets dry and the grace of its form is gone with the falling flower; so the man of wealth comes to nothing in his ways.

Die

But if not, they come to their end, and give up their breath without knowledge.

Man, like the animals, does not go on for ever; he comes to an end like the beasts.

Have no more to do with man, whose life is only a breath, for he is of no value.

But God said to him, You foolish one, tonight I will take your soul from you, and who then will be the owner of all the things which you have got together?