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Job 4:21

Job 4:21
Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.

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Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Doth not their excellency ... - Dr. Good renders this, “Their fluttering round is over with them,” by a very forced construction of the passage. Translators and expositors have been very much divided…

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

their excellency go away This verse is obscure. The word rendered go awaymeans to pull out, as a pin or the posts of a gate, Jdg 16:3; Jdg 16:14 (English version, went away with), or the stake of a…