Job 4:19

how much more does this apply to those who live in these houses made of clay, whose foundations are based on dust, who fall apart like clothing to a moth?

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In The King James Version

How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?

In Context

18If he doesn't even trust his servants, and he says his angels make mistakes,

20Alive in the morning, they are dead by evening. They die, unnoticed.

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Cross References

Genesis 3:19You will have to sweat to grow enough food to eat until you die and return to the ground. For you were made from dust and you will return to dust.”

Job 10:9Remember that you shaped me like a piece of clay—are you now going to turn me back into dust?

Job 13:28I'm falling apart like something rotten, like moth-eaten clothes.

Job 22:16They were taken before their time; all they had built was washed away.

Job 33:6Look, before God we are both the same. I was also made from a piece of clay.

Psalms 90:5You bring people's lives to a sudden end, like dreams that vanish. They are like grass that grows up in the morning—

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 →

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