Job 4:19

How much more them that dwell in batim (houses) of clay, 1 whose yesod (foundation, origin) is in the dust, 1 which are crushed like the moth? 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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 puts no trust in His avadim, 1 and His malachim (angels) He charged with toholah (error). 1

20They are destroyed from boker to erev; 1 they perish forever without any regarding it. 1

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Cross References

Genesis 3:19In the sweat of thy brow shalt thou eat lechem, 1 till thou return unto haadamah; 1 for out of it wast thou taken; 1 for aphar thou art, 1 and unto aphar shalt thou return.

Job 10:9Remember, now, that Thou hast molded me like the chomer (clay), 1 and wilt Thou turn me into aphar again? 1

Job 13:28Around one who wastes away as a rotten thing, 1 as a beged (garment) that is moth eaten.

Job 22:16Who were cut down before their time, 1 whose yesod was overflown with a flood; 1

Job 33:6See, I am like thee, of El, 1 from chomer (clay) was I taken also. 1

Psalms 90:5Thou carriest them away as with a flood; 1 they are as a sheinah (sleep); 1 in the boker they are like khatzir (grass) which withereth. 1

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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