Job 4:9

⁹ At the breath of God they perish; at the blast of his anger they are no more.

Job 4

Other Translations of Job 4:9

King James Version

⁹ By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath by the breath...: that is, by his anger of his nostrils are they consumed.

English Standard Version

⁹ By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they are consumed.

The Message

⁹ One breath from God and they fall apart, one blast of his anger and there's nothing left of them.

New King James Version

⁹ By the blast of God they perish, And by the breath of His anger they are consumed.

New Living Translation

⁹ A breath from God destroys them. They vanish in a blast of his anger.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 4:9

Commentary on Job 4:7-11

(Read Job 4:7-11)

Eliphaz argues, 1. That good men were never thus ruined. But there is one event both to the righteous and to the wicked, Ecclesiastes 9:2, both in life and death; the great and certain difference is after death. Our worst mistakes are occasioned by drawing wrong views from undeniable truths. 2. That wicked men were often thus ruined: for the proof of this, Eliphaz vouches his own observation. We may see the same every day.