Job 4:19
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“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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“how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?”
King James Version · Public Domain“How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before the moth!”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Also--the inhabitants of houses of clay, (Whose foundation <FI>is<Fi> in the dust, They bruise them before a moth.)”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 4:19 — 18 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 2:7Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.
- 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.”
- Genesis 18:27Then Abraham answered, “Now that I have ventured to speak to the Lord—though I am but dust and ashes—
- Job 10:9Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust?
- Job 13:12Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.
- Job 13:28So man wastes away like something rotten, like a moth-eaten garment.
- Job 14:2Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.
- Job 22:16They were snatched away before their time, and their foundations were swept away by a flood.
- Job 25:6how much less man, who is but a maggot, and the son of man, who is but a worm!”
- Job 33:6I am just like you before God; I was also formed from clay.
- Psalms 39:11You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah
- Psalms 90:5You whisk them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning—
- Psalms 103:15As for man, his days are like grass— he blooms like a flower of the field;
- Psalms 146:4When his spirit departs, he returns to the ground; on that very day his plans perish.
- Ecclesiastes 12:7before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
- 2 Corinthians 4:7Now we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this surpassingly great power is from God and not from us.
- 2 Corinthians 5:1Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is dismantled, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.
- 1 Peter 1:24For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,
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