Job 4:19
How much more will those who live in houses of clay, which have an earthly foundation, be consumed like the moth?
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In Context
18Behold, those who serve him are not steadfast, and in his angels he finds imperfection.
Cross References
Genesis 3:19By the sweat of your face shall you eat bread, until you return to the earth from which you were taken. For dust you are, and unto dust you shall return.”
Job 10:9Remember, I ask you, that you have fashioned me like clay, and you will reduce me to dust.
Job 13:28I will be left to decay like something rotten and like a garment that is being eaten by moths.
Job 22:16These were taken away before their time, and a flood overthrew their foundation.
Job 33:6Behold, God has made me, just as he also has made you, and I, likewise, have been formed of the same clay.
Psalms 90:5His truth will surround you with a shield. You will not be afraid: before the terror of the night,
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 →