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Job 4:20

Verse 20 of 21. The 4th of 42 chapters in Job, in Poetry and Wisdom.

16It stood still, but I couldn’t discern its appearance. A form was before my eyes. Silence, then I heard a voice, saying,

17‘Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?

18Behold, he puts no trust in his servants. He charges his angels with error.

19How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!

20Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.

21Isn’t their tent cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.’

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World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.