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Job 4:21 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: King James Version
" Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom. "
Job 4:21
Verse in Context
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19 How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
20 They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.
21 Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.
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Job 4:1
"Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,"
Job 4:2
"If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking?"
Job 4:3
"Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands."
Job 4:4
"Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees."
Job 4:5
"But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled."
Job 4:6
"Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?"
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