Job 4:19

American Standard Version (1901)

How much more them that 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, I beseech thee, that thou hast fashioned me as clay; And wilt thou bring me into dust again?
  • Gen 2:7 : 7 And Jehovah God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
  • Gen 3:19 : 19 in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
  • Job 33:6 : 6 Behold, I am toward God even as thou art: I also am formed out of the clay.
  • Job 13:12 : 12 Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defences are defences of clay.
  • Job 13:28 : 28 Though I am like a rotten thing that consumeth, Like a garment that is moth-eaten.
  • Gen 18:27 : 27 And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, who am but dust and ashes:
  • 2 Cor 4:7 : 7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves;
  • 2 Cor 5:1 : 1 For we know that if the earthly house of our tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.
  • 1 Pet 1:24 : 24 For, All flesh is as grass, And all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower falleth:
  • Job 14:2 : 2 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
  • Job 22:16 : 16 Who were snatched away before their time, Whose foundation was poured out as a stream,
  • Ps 39:11 : 11 When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, Thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: Surely every man is vanity. {{Selah
  • Ps 90:5-7 : 5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: In the morning they are like grass which groweth up. 6 In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; In the evening it is cut down, and withereth. 7 For we are consumed in thine anger, And in thy wrath are we troubled.
  • Ps 103:15-16 : 15 As for man, his days are as grass; As a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. 16 For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; And the place thereof shall know it no more.
  • Ps 146:4 : 4 His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; In that very day his thoughts perish.
  • Eccl 12:7 : 7 and the dust returneth to the earth as it was, and the spirit returneth unto God who gave it.

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