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Job 4:20

Job 4:20
They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Doth not their excellency which is in them go away?.... Either the soul which is in them, and is the most excellent part of them; this, though it dies not, yet it goes away and departs from the body…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

They are destroyed from morning to evening - Margin, “beaten in pieces.” This is nearer to the Hebrew. The phrase “from morning to evening” means between the morning and the evening; that is, they…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Job 4:12-21

Eliphaz, having undertaken to convince Job of the sin and folly of his discontent and impatience, here vouches a vision he had been favoured with, which he relates to Job for his conviction. What…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

from morning to evening i. e. from a morning to an evening, in the course of a single day, cf. Isa 38:12. They are short-lived as ephemerids.

without any regarding i. e. without any one noticing it;…