Job 4:19

How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!

JPS TaNaKH 1917

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

18Behold, He putteth no trust in His servants, and His angels He chargeth with folly;

20Betwixt morning and evening they are shattered; they perish for ever without any regarding it.

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Cross References

Genesis 3:19In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto 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 fashioned me as clay; and wilt Thou bring me into dust again?

Job 13:28Though I am like a wine-skin that consumeth, 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 art; 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 which 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 →

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