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19     how much less those who dwell in houses of clay,
        whose foundations are in dust,
        and who are crushed like a moth?
20 They are smashed between morning and evening;
    they perish forever without anyone knowing.
21 Isn’t their tent cord pulled up?
    They die without wisdom.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Job 4:21 Some interpreters end the quotation here rather than 4:17.

19 how much more those who live in houses of clay,(A)
    whose foundations(B) are in the dust,(C)
    who are crushed(D) more readily than a moth!(E)
20 Between dawn and dusk they are broken to pieces;
    unnoticed, they perish forever.(F)
21 Are not the cords of their tent pulled up,(G)
    so that they die(H) without wisdom?’(I)

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