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17 ‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God?
    Can a man be more pure than his Maker?
18 He does not trust in His servants,
    and He charges His angels with error;
19 Even more, those who dwell in houses of clay,
    whose foundation is in the dust,
    who are crushed before the moth.
20 They are broken in pieces from morning to evening;
    they perish forever without anyone regarding it.
21 Are not their tent ropes plucked up,
    so they die, even without wisdom?’

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17 ‘Can a human being be more righteous than God,
or can a man be more pure than his Maker?
18 Look, he does not trust in his servants
and he charges his angels with error.
19 How much more dwellers in clay houses,
whose foundation is in the dust?
They are crushed like a moth.
20 Between morning and evening[a] they are destroyed;
without anyone regarding it they perish forever.
21 Is not their tent cord pulled up within them?
They die, but[b] not in[c] wisdom.’

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Footnotes

  1. Job 4:20 Literally “from morning to the evening”
  2. Job 4:21 Hebrew “and”
  3. Job 4:21 Or “with”