Job 4:19
How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed as the moth!
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
18Lo, he trusteth not his servants, and his angels he chargeth with folly:
20From morning to evening are they smitten: without any heeding it, they perish for ever.
Cross References
Genesis 3:19In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, until thou return to the ground: for out of it wast thou taken. For dust thou art; and unto dust shalt thou return.
Job 10:9Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as clay, and wilt bring me into dust again.
Job 13:28One who, as a rotten thing consumeth, as a garment that the moth eateth.
Job 22:16Who were carried off before the time, whose foundation was overflowed with a flood;
Job 33:6Behold, before God I am as thou; I also am formed out of the clay.
Psalms 90:5Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are [as] a sleep: in the morning they are like grass [that] groweth 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 →