Job 4:19
How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!
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In Context
18Behold, he puts no trust in his servants. He charges his angels with error.
20Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.
Cross References
Genesis 3:19You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”
Job 10:9Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?
Job 13:28though I am decaying like a rotten thing, 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 you are. I am also formed out of the clay.
Psalms 90:5You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new 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 →