Holy Scripture
Job 4:20
A church father on this verse
“Eliphaz, still clinging to the same principle … that Job's critical circumstances were due to Job's own sins, adds these words, "Since they could not help themselves through virtue by repenting of their evils, these afflictions befell them." And Eliphaz suggests that he fully comprehends this situation. They perished…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
20And from morning to evening they no longer exist: They have perished, because they cannot help themselves.
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In context
18Whereas he trusts not in his servants, And perceives perverseness in his angels.
19But as for them that dwell in houses of clay, Of whom we also are formed of the same clay, He smites them like a moth.
— Job 4:20 —
21For he blows upon them, and they are withered: They have perished for lack of wisdom.