Job 4:21
Good News Translation
All that we have is taken away; we die, still lacking wisdom."

New Revised Standard Version
Their tent-cord is plucked up within them, and they die devoid of wisdom.’

Contemporary English Version
Your tent pegs are pulled up, and you leave this life, having gained no wisdom."

New American Bible
The pegs of their tent are plucked up; they die without knowing wisdom.”

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

excellency.

Psalm 39:5,11 Behold thou hast made my days measurable. and my substance is as nothing before thee. And indeed all things are vanity: every man living. . . .

Psalm 49:14 They are laid in hell like sheep: death shall feed upon them. And the just shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their help shall decay in hell from their glory.

Psalm 146:3,4 In the children of men, in whom there is no salvation. . . .

Isaiah 14:16 They that shall see thee, shall turn toward thee, and behold thee. Is this the man that troubled the earth, that shook kingdoms,

Luke 16:22,23 And it came to pass that the beggar died and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom. And the rich man also died: and he was buried in hell. . . .

James 1:11 For the sun rose with a burning heat and parched the grass: and the flower thereof fell off, and the beauty of the shape thereof perished. So also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

die.

Job 36:12 But if they hear not, they shall pass by the sword, and shall be consumed in folly.

Psalm 49:20 Man when he was in honour did not understand: he hath been compared to senseless beasts, and made like to them.

Isaiah 2:22 Cease ye therefore from the man, whose breath is in his nostrils, for he is reputed high.

Luke 12:20 But God said to him: Thou fool, this night do they require thy soul of thee. And whose shall those things be which thou hast provided?

Context
Eliphaz: The Innocent Prosper
20From morning till evening they shall be cut down: and because no one understandeth, they shall perish for ever. 21And they that shall be left, shall be taken away from them: they shall die, and not in wisdom.
Cross References
Job 8:22
They that hate thee, shall be clothed with confusion: and the dwelling of the wicked shall not stand.

Job 18:21
These then are the tabernacles of the wicked, and this the place of him that knoweth not God.

Job 36:12
But if they hear not, they shall pass by the sword, and shall be consumed in folly.

Proverbs 5:23
My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, thou hast engaged fast thy hand to a stranger,

Job 4:20
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