Job 4:19
How much more shall they that dwell in houses of clay, who have an earthly foundation, be consumed as with the moth?
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
18Behold they that serve him are not steadfast, and in his angels he found wickedness:
Cross References
Genesis 3:19In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return to the earth, out of which thou wast taken: for dust thou art, and into dust thou shalt return.
Job 10:9Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay, and thou wilt bring me into dust again.
Job 13:28Who am to be consumed as rottenness, and as a garment that is moth-eaten.
Job 22:16Who were taken away before their time, and a flood hath overthrown their foundation.
Job 33:6Behold God hath made me as well as thee, and of the same clay I also was formed.
Psalms 90:5things that are counted nothing, shall their years be.
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 →