Job 4:20

Between morning and evening people are destroyed and perish unnoticed forever. It emphasizes the brevity and seeming insignificance of human life.

Cross-references · 14

• Job 20:7he will perish forever, like his own dung; those who had seen him will ask, ‘Where is he?’
• Ps 90:5–6You whisk them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning—
• Ps 39:13Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may again be cheered before I depart and am no more.”
• Job 14:14When a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait, until my renewal comes.
• 2 Chr 15:6Nation was crushed by nation, and city by city, for God afflicted them with all kinds of adversity.
• Job 18:17The memory of him perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the land.
• Ps 92:7that though the wicked sprout like grass, and all evildoers flourish, they will be forever destroyed.
• 2 Chr 21:20Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years. He died, to no one’s regret, and was buried in the City of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.
• Prov 10:7The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.
• Job 14:20You forever overpower him, and he passes on; You change his countenance and send him away.
• Job 16:22For when only a few years are past I will go the way of no return.
• Isa 38:12–13My dwelling has been picked up and removed from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver; He cuts me off from the loom; from day until night You make an end of me.
• Ps 37:36yet he passed away and was no more; though I searched, he could not be found.
• Job 14:2Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.

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