Job 4:19
Also—the inhabitants of houses of clay || (Whose foundation [is] in the dust, || They bruise them before a moth).
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In Context
18Behold, He puts no credence in His servants, || Nor sets praise in His messengers.
20From morning to evening are beaten down, || Without any regarding, they perish forever.
Cross References
Genesis 3:19by the sweat of your face you eat bread until your return to the ground, for you have been taken out of it, for dust you [are], and to dust you return.”
Job 10:9Please remember || That You have made me as clay, || And You bring me back to dust.
Job 13:28And he, as a rotten thing, wears away, || A moth has consumed him as a garment.”
Job 22:16Who have been cut down unexpectedly? A flood is poured out on their foundation.
Job 33:6Behold, I [am], according to your word, for God, || I have also been formed from the clay.
Psalms 90:5You have inundated them, they are asleep, || In the morning he changes as grass.
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 →