Verse 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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Referenced Verses

  • Job 10:9 : 9 Remember, You fashioned me from clay; will You now return me to dust?
  • Gen 2:7 : 7 Then the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground, breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
  • Gen 3:19 : 19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread until you return to the ground, because from it you were taken; for dust you are, and to dust you will return.
  • Job 33:6 : 6 Look, I am like you before God; I too was formed from clay.
  • Job 13:12 : 12 Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.
  • Job 13:28 : 28 So man wastes away like something rotten, like a garment eaten by moths.
  • Gen 18:27 : 27 Then Abraham answered, 'I have ventured to speak to the Lord, though I am but dust and ashes.
  • 2 Cor 4:7 : 7 But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us.
  • 2 Cor 5:1 : 1 For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.
  • 1 Pet 1:24 : 24 For, "All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls off,
  • Job 14:2 : 2 He springs up like a flower and withers away; he flees like a shadow and does not endure.
  • Job 22:16 : 16 They were snatched away before their time, and their foundation was swept away by a flood.
  • Ps 39:11 : 11 Remove Your stroke from me; I am consumed by the blow of Your hand.
  • Ps 90:5-7 : 5 You sweep them away like a flood; they are like a dream, like grass that springs up in the morning— 6 In the morning it flourishes and grows, but by evening it withers and dries up. 7 We are consumed by your anger, and terrified by your wrath.
  • Ps 103:15-16 : 15 As for man, his days are like grass, he blooms like a flower of the field. 16 The wind blows over it, and it is gone, and its place remembers it no more.
  • Ps 146:4 : 4 When their breath departs, they return to the earth; on that very day their plans perish.
  • Eccl 12:7 : 7 And the dust returns to the earth as it once was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.