Job 4:20 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.

From morning to evening - unceasingly; or, better, between the morning and evening of one short day (so Exodus 18:14; Isaiah 38:12). 'From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me' (Umbreit). "In the morning it flourisheth-in the evening it is cut down" (Psalms 90:5-6). "They are destroyed." (literally, broken in pieces) in the space of a day." Therefore man must not think to be holy before God, but to draw holiness, and all things else, from God (Job 4:17).

Job 4:20

20 They are destroyedc from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.