Job 4:9
Strong's Lexicon
By the breath
מִנִּשְׁמַ֣ת (min·niš·maṯ)
Preposition-m | Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 5397: 1) breath, spirit 1a) breath (of God) 1b) breath (of man) 1c) every breathing thing 1d) spirit (of man)

of God
אֱל֣וֹהַ (’ĕ·lō·w·ha)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 433: 1) God 2) false god

they perish,
יֹאבֵ֑דוּ (yō·ḇê·ḏū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 6: 1) perish, vanish, go astray, be destroyed 1a) (Qal) 1a1) perish, die, be exterminated 1a2) perish, vanish (fig.) 1a3) be lost, strayed 1b) (Piel) 1b1) to destroy, kill, cause to perish, to give up (as lost), exterminate 1b2) to blot out, do away with, cause to vanish, (fig.) 1b3) cause to stray, lose 1c) (Hiphil) 1c1) to destroy, put to death 1c1a) of divine judgment 1c2) object name of kings (fig.)

and by the blast
וּמֵר֖וּחַ (ū·mê·rū·aḥ)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-m | Noun - common singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 7307: 1) wind, breath, mind, spirit 1a) breath 1b) wind 1b1) of heaven 1b2) quarter (of wind), side 1b3) breath of air 1b4) air, gas 1b5) vain, empty thing 1c) spirit (as that which breathes quickly in animation or agitation) 1c1) spirit, animation, vivacity, vigour 1c2) courage 1c3) temper, anger 1c4) impatience, patience 1c5) spirit, disposition (as troubled, bitter, discontented) 1c6) disposition (of various kinds), unaccountable or uncontrollable impulse 1c7) prophetic spirit 1d) spirit (of the living, breathing being in man and animals) 1d1) as gift, preserved by God, God's spirit, departing at death, disembodied being 1e) spirit (as seat of emotion) 1e1) desire 1e2) sorrow, trouble 1f) spirit 1f1) as seat or organ of mental acts 1f2) rarely of the will 1f3) as seat especially of moral character 1g) Spirit of God, the third person of the triune God, the Holy Spirit, coequal, coeternal with the Father and the Son 1g1) as inspiring ecstatic state of prophecy 1g2) as impelling prophet to utter instruction or warning 1g3) imparting warlike energy and executive and administrative power 1g4) as endowing men with various gifts 1g5) as energy of life 1g6) as manifest in the Shekinah glory 1g7) never referred to as a depersonalised force

of His anger
אַפּ֣וֹ (’ap·pōw)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 639: 1) nostril, nose, face 2) anger

they are consumed.
יִכְלֽוּ׃ (yiḵ·lū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3615: 1) to accomplish, cease, consume, determine, end, fail, finish, be complete, be accomplished, be ended, be at an end, be finished, be spent 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to be complete, be at an end 1a2) to be completed, be finished 1a3) to be accomplished, be fulfilled 1a4) to be determined, be plotted (bad sense) 1a5) to be spent, be used up 1a6) to waste away, be exhausted, fail 1a7) to come to an end, vanish, perish, be destroyed 1b) (Piel) 1b1) to complete, bring to an end, finish 1b2) to complete (a period of time) 1b3) to finish (doing a thing) 1b4) to make an end, end 1b5) to accomplish, fulfil, bring to pass 1b6) to accomplish, determine (in thought) 1b7) to put an end to, cause to cease 1b8) to cause to fail, exhaust, use up, spend 1b9) to destroy, exterminate 1c) (Pual) to be finished, be ended, be completed

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of His anger they are consumed.

Young's Literal Translation
From the breath of God they perish, And from the spirit of His anger consumed.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
They perish at  a single blast from God and come to an end by  the breath of His  nostrils. 

New American Standard Bible
"By the breath of God they perish, And by the blast of His anger they come to an end.

King James Bible
By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.
Parallel Verses
New International Version
At the breath of God they perish; at the blast of his anger they are no more.

New Living Translation
A breath from God destroys them. They vanish in a blast of his anger.

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

New American Standard Bible
"By the breath of God they perish, And by the blast of His anger they come to an end.

King James Bible
By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
They perish at a single blast from God and come to an end by the breath of His nostrils.

International Standard Version
They perish by the breath of God; they are consumed by the storm that is his anger.

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

American Standard Version
By the breath of God they perish, And by the blast of his anger are they consumed.

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

Young's Literal Translation
From the breath of God they perish, And from the spirit of His anger consumed.
















Cross References
2 Thessalonians 2:8
And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:

Exodus 15:8
And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright as an heap, and the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.

Job 15:30
He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.

Job 40:11
Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath: and behold every one that is proud, and abase him.

Isaiah 11:4
But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.

Isaiah 30:33
For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he hath made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.

Isaiah 40:7
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.

Job 1:1
There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.

Job 4:8
Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.

Job 4:7
Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?

Job 4:6
Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?
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