Job 4:19
How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
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In Context
18Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly:
20They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.
Cross References
Genesis 3:19In the sweat of your face shall you eat bread, till you return unto the ground; for out of it were you taken: for dust you are, and unto dust shall you return.
Job 10:9Remember, I plead to you, that you have made me as the clay; and will you bring me into dust again?
Job 13:28And he, as a rotten thing, consumes, as a garment that is moth eaten.
Job 22:16Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflowed with a flood:
Job 33:6Behold, I am according to your wish in God's position: I also am formed out of the clay.
Psalms 90:5You carry them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which grows up.
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 →