What does Job 4:20 mean?

Job 4:20 highlights themes such as mortality, destruction, transience when read in context.

How should I apply Job 4:20 today?

Read the surrounding passage, compare related cross references, and turn the verse into a short prayer and concrete action.

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

18Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly:

19How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?

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

21Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.

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Ecclesiastes 3:19
Both verses reflect on the fate of humanity and the inevitability of death.