Job 4:19

how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like 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 God puts no trust in His servants, and He charges His angels with error,

20They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; unnoticed, they perish forever.

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Cross References

Genesis 3:19By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground—because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”

Job 10:9Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust?

Job 13:28So man wastes away like something rotten, like a moth-eaten garment.

Job 22:16They were snatched away before their time, and their foundations were swept away by a flood.

Job 33:6I am just like you before God; I was also formed from clay.

Psalms 90:5You sweep them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of 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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