King James Version
Job 4:20 in the King James Version says “They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it. destroyed: Heb. beaten in pie...” — study this verse from Job chapter 4 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it. destroyed: Heb. beaten in pieces”
Job 4:20 · KJV
Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly: and his: or, nor in his angels, in whom he put light
How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it. destroyed: Heb. beaten in pieces
Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.
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properly, failure, i.e., nothing or destruction; usually (with preposition) without, not yet, because not, as long as, etc
“without any regarding”
H7760to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
“for ever”
H5331properly, a goal, i.e., the bright object at a distance travelled towards; hence (figuratively), splendor, or (subjectively) truthfulness, or (objecti
“they perish”
H6properly, to wander away, i.e., lose oneself; by implication to perish (causative, destroy)
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