Job 4:21 KJV — MannaFest

Job 4:21

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

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ASV

Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.

WEB

Are not their tent cords pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?’

YLT

Hath not their excellency been removed with them? They die, and not in wisdom!

DBT

Is not their tent-cord torn away in them? they die, and without wisdom.

About this book

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Job — The canonical wisdom-literature interrogation of undeserved suffering. A prose frame enclosing three cycles of dialogue, a late Elihu interrupt, and a whirlwind theophany that does not answer the question — it relativizes it.

Author: Anonymous. Talmudic tradition names Moses (Bava Batra 14b); internal features (patriarchal setting, no Mosaic Law reference, Job sacrificing as family head, *qesitah* currency of Gen 33:19) suggest patriarchal-era composition or at least tradition-origin.
Date: Traditional: patriarchal period, c. 2000–1800 BC. Critical proposals scatter across pre-exilic to post-exilic. §7.9 surfaces; Pastor Marc's drawer takes the position.

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14 verses on the floor

Job 36:12
But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.
Proverbs 5:23
He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
Luke 16:22–23
And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham’s bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;
Psalms 39:11
When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
Job 8:22
They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.

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4 Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees. 5 But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled. 6 Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

The deaths of others are much the subject of common talk, but little the subject of serious thought. Some think the eternal damnation of sinners is here spoken of, as well as their temporal death: They are destroyed, or broken to pieces, by death, from morning to evening; and, if they repent not, they perish for ever (so some read it),

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

The design of the spirit is to show that the continued existence of weak man proves the inconceivable wisdom and holiness of God, which alone save man from ruin [UMBREIT]. BENGEL shows from Scripture that God's holiness (Hebrew, kadosh) comprehends all His excellencies and attributes.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

Excellency - Whatsoever is by common estimation excellent in men, all their natural, and moral, and civil accomplishments, as high birth, great riches, power and wisdom, these are so far from preserving men from perishing, that they perish themselves, together with those houses of clay in which they are lodged.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

Thy fear - We now plainly see what was the nature of thy fear of God, thy confidence in him, the uprightness of thy ways, and thy hope in God's mercy. Thy present carriage discovers that it was but mere talk and appearance. Innocent - Therefore thou art guilty of some great, though secret crimes, and thy sin hath now found thee out.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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H3499102× in canon H2451153× in canon

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