Job 4:20

Modern

They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; unnoticed, they perish forever.

Traditional

They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.

Literal

From morning to evening they are broken to pieces; without anyone noticing, they perish forever.

Latin

De mane usque ad vesperam succidentur; et quia nullus intelligit, in æternum peribunt.

Hebrew

English

They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; unnoticed, they perish forever.

The idea that God does not trust His servants and charges His angels with error is unique (but see Genesis 6:1–4).

Theme notes and profiles

Job 20:7
…he will perish forever, like his own dung; those who had seen him will ask, ‘Where is he?’
Psalm 92:7
…that though the wicked sprout like grass, and all evildoers flourish, they will be forever destroyed.
2 Chronicles 21:20
Jehoram 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.
Psalm 37:36
…yet he passed away and was no more; though I searched, he could not be found.
Job 14:20
You forever overpower him, and he passes on; You change his countenance and send him away.
Job 14:14
When a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait, until my renewal comes.
Proverbs 10:7
The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.
2 Chronicles 15:6
Nation was crushed by nation, and city by city, for God afflicted them with all kinds of adversity.
Psalm 39:13
Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may again be cheered before I depart and am no more.”
Isaiah 38:12–13
My 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.
Job 18:17
The memory of him perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the land.
Job 14:2
Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.