Job 4:19
How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
18Behold, he puts no trust in his servants, and he charges his [heavenly] agents with folly.
20Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.
Cross References
Genesis 3:19In the sweat of thy face thou shall eat bread, till thou return to the ground, for out of it thou were taken. For thou are dust, and to dust thou shall return.
Job 10:9Remember, I beseech thee, that thou have fashioned me as clay. And will thou bring me into dust again?
Job 13:28Though I am like a rotten thing that decays, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
Job 22:16Who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream,
Job 33:6Behold, I am toward God even as thou are. I also am formed out of the clay.
Psalms 90:5Thou carry them away as with a flood. They are as a sleep. In the morning they are like grass which grows up.
Matthew Henry on Job 4:13-21
12 Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof. 13 In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, 14 Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. 15 Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up: 16 It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying, 17 Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his… Read the whole commentary →