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Job 4:21 Strong Concordance Doth not their excellency [03499] which is in them go away [05265]? they die [04191], even without wisdom [02451].
  King James Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
their excellency-- (Psa 39:11; Psa 146:4; Co1 13:8). But UMBREIT, by an Oriental image from a bow, useless because unstrung: "Their nerve, or string would be torn away." MICHAELIS, better in accordance with Job 4:19, makes the allusion be to the cords of a tabernacle taken down (Isa 33:20).

they die, even without wisdom--rather, "They would perish, yet not according to wisdom," but according to arbitrary choice, if God were not infinitely wise and holy. The design of the spirit is to show that the continued existence of weak man proves the inconceivable wisdom and holiness of God, which alone save man from ruin [UMBREIT]. BENGEL shows from Scripture that God's holiness (Hebrew, kadosh) comprehends all His excellencies and attributes. DE WETTE loses the scope, in explaining it, of the shortness of man's life, contrasted with the angels "before they have attained to wisdom."
 
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20 Look [02372] upon Zion [06726], the city [07151] of our solemnities [04150]: thine eyes [05869] shall see [07200] Jerusalem [03389] a quiet [07600] habitation [05116], a tabernacle [0168] that shall not be taken down [06813]; not one of the stakes [03489] thereof shall ever [05331] be removed [05265], neither shall any of the cords [02256] thereof be broken [05423].
19 How much less [0637] in them that dwell [07931] in houses [01004] of clay [02563], whose foundation [03247] is in the dust [06083], which are crushed [01792] before [06440] the moth [06211]?
8 Charity [26] never [3763] faileth [1601]: but [1161] whether [1535] there be prophecies [4394], they shall fail [2673]; whether [1535] there be tongues [1100], they shall cease [3973]; whether [1535] there be knowledge [1108], it shall vanish away [2673].
4 His breath [07307] goeth forth [03318], he returneth [07725] to his earth [0127]; in that very day [03117] his thoughts [06250] perish [06].
11 When thou with rebukes [08433] dost correct [03256] man [0376] for iniquity [05771], thou makest his beauty [02530] to consume away [04529] like a moth [06211]: surely every man [0120] is vanity [01892]. Selah [05542].