Job 4:20
Old Testament • 8 words with Strong's data
"They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it."
Word-by-Word Analysis
בֹּקֶר
bôqer
properly, dawn (as the break of day); generally, morning
אָבַד
ʼâbad
properly, to wander away, i.e. lose oneself; by implication to perish (causative, destroy)
עוֹלָם
ʻôwlâm
properly, concealed, i.e. the vanishing point; generally, time out of mind (past or future), i.e. (practically) eternity; frequentatively, adverbial (...
חוּץ
chûwts
properly, separate by awall, i.e. outside, outdoors
אִישׁ
ʼîysh
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
παραβουλεύομαι
parabouleúomai
to misconsult, i.e. disregard
Key Terms in This Verse
אָבַד ʼâbad
properly, to wander away, i.e. lose oneself; by implication to perish (causative, destroy)
Study H6 →עוֹלָם ʻôwlâm
properly, concealed, i.e. the vanishing point; generally, time out of mind (past or future), i.e. (practically) eternity; frequentatively, adverbial (especially with prepositional prefix) always
Study H5769 →אִישׁ ʼîysh
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
Study H376 →Cross References
Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?
When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years, and departed without being desired. Howbeit they buried him in the city of David, but not in the sepulc...
When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.
O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.
His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.
And nation was destroyed of nation, and city of city: for God did vex them with all adversity.
Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
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