Job 4:19

how much more is this true of those who live in houses of clay, 1 whose foundation is in the dust, 1 who are crushed sooner than a moth? 1

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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

18See, if God puts no trust in his servants; 1 if he accuses his angels of folly, 1

20Between morning and evening they are destroyed; 1 they perish forever without anyone noticing them. 1

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Cross References

Genesis 3:19By the sweat of your face you will eat bread, 1 until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. 1 For dust you are, and to dust you will return.”

Job 10:9Call to mind, I beg you, that you have fashioned me like clay; 1 will you bring me into dust again? 1

Job 13:28although I am like a rotten thing that wastes away, 1 like a garment that moths have eaten.

Job 22:16those who were snatched away before their time, 1 those whose foundations have washed away like a river, 1

Job 33:6See, I am just as you are in God's sight; 1 I also have been formed out of the clay. 1

Psalms 90:5You sweep them away as with a flood and they sleep; 1 in the morning they are like the grass that sprouts up. 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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