They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.
Human life is frail and brief, destroyed from morning to evening and continually, perishing forever without anyone regarding or taking notice. The saying belongs to the portion of Job that sets forth the great problems of overruling providence and of sin and suffering, where God is disciplining Job and bringing him through the fire of affliction while his three friends charge him with sin and declare his sufferings are because of sin, showing how humanity misjudges its fellows. As part of Eliphaz's speech it must be tested against the rest of Scripture rather than accepted as truth simply because it is recorded, and it is not reliable wherever it contradicts inspired teaching. Eliphaz and his friends generally spoke truths but wrongly applied them to Job, so the saying is not necessarily true in every case and does not establish that suffering proves a person is under God's displeasure.
It applies to mortal people who presume to command in God's name what He has not commanded, whose excellency passes away and who die without wisdom.
Human life is frail and brief, destroyed from morning to evening and continually, perishing forever without anyone regarding or taking notice. The saying belongs to the portion of Job that sets forth the great problems of overruling providence and of sin and suffering, where God is disciplining Job and bringing him through the fire of affliction while his three friends charge him with sin and declare his sufferings are because of sin, showing how humanity misjudges its fellows. As part of Eliphaz's speech it must be tested against the rest of Scripture rather than accepted as truth simply because it is recorded, and it is not reliable wherever it contradicts inspired teaching. Eliphaz and his friends generally spoke truths but wrongly applied them to Job, so the saying is not necessarily true in every case and does not establish that suffering proves a person is under God's displeasure.
It applies to mortal people who presume to command in God's name what He has not commanded, whose excellency passes away and who die without wisdom.