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 20:7yet he shall perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him shall say, ‘Where is he?’
• Ps 90:5–6You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.
• Ps 39:13Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away, and exist no more.”
• Job 14:14If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my warfare would I wait, until my release should come.
• 2 Chr 15:6They were broken in pieces, nation against nation, and city against city; for God troubled them with all adversity.
• Job 18:17His memory shall perish from the earth. He shall have no name in the street.
• Ps 92:7though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.
• 2 Chr 21:20He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years. He departed without being missed; and they buried him in David’s city, but not in the tombs of the kings.
• Prov 10:7The memory of the righteous is blessed, but the name of the wicked will rot.
• Job 14:20You forever prevail against him, and he departs. You change his face, and send him away.
• Job 16:22For when a few years have come, I shall go the way of no return.
• Isa 38:12–13My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life. He will cut me off from the loom. From day even to night you will make an end of me.
• Ps 37:36But he passed away, and behold, he was not. Yes, I sought him, but he could not be found.
• Job 14:2He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.

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