Job 4:21

Doeth not their excellencie which is in them, goe away? they die, euen without wisedome.
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan

'Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them? They die, yet without wisdom.'
- New American Standard Version (1995)

Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.
- American Standard Version (1901)

If their tent-cord is pulled up, do they not come to an end, and without wisdom?
- Basic English Bible

Are not their tent cords pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?'
- Berean Standard Bible Bible

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

And they that shall be left, shall be taken away from them: they shall die, and not in wisdom.
- Douay-Rheims Bible

Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them? they die, and that without wisdom.
- English Revised Version

Isn't their tent cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.'
- World English Bible

Wesley's Notes for Job 4:21

4:21 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. Without wisdom - Even without having attained that only wisdom for which they came into the world. Shall such mean, weak, foolish, sinful, dying creatures as this, pretend to be more just than God, more pure than his maker? No: instead of quarrelling with his afflictions, let him admire that he is out of hell.