Job 4:19

Bible in Basic English (1941)

How much more those living in houses of earth, whose bases are in the dust! They are crushed more quickly than an insect;

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  • Job 10:9 : 9 O keep in mind that you made me out of earth; and will you send me back again to dust?
  • Gen 2:7 : 7 And the Lord God made man from the dust of the earth, breathing into him the breath of life: and man became a living soul.
  • Gen 3:19 : 19 With the hard work of your hands you will get your bread till you go back to the earth from which you were taken: for dust you are and to the dust you will go back.
  • Job 33:6 : 6 See, I am the same as you are in the eyes of God; I was cut off from the same bit of wet earth.
  • Job 13:12 : 12 Your wise sayings are only dust, and your strong places are only earth.
  • Job 13:28 : 28 Though a man comes to nothing like a bit of dead wood, or like a robe which has become food for the worm.
  • Gen 18:27 : 27 And Abraham answering said, Truly, I who am only dust, have undertaken to put my thoughts before the Lord:
  • 2 Cor 4:7 : 7 But we have this wealth in vessels of earth, so that it may be seen that the power comes not from us but from God;
  • 2 Cor 5:1 : 1 For we are conscious that if this our tent of flesh is taken down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in heaven.
  • 1 Pet 1:24 : 24 For it is said, All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the grass. The grass becomes dry and the flower dead:
  • Job 14:2 : 2 He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again.
  • Job 22:16 : 16 Who were violently taken away before their time, who were overcome by the rush of waters:
  • Ps 39:11 : 11 By the weight of your wrath against man's sin, the glory of his form is wasted away; truly every man is but a breath. (Selah.)
  • Ps 90:5-7 : 5 ... 6 In the morning it is green; in the evening it is cut down, and becomes dry. 7 We are burned up by the heat of your passion, and troubled by your wrath.
  • Ps 103:15-16 : 15 As for man, his days are as grass: his beautiful growth is like the flower of the field. 16 The wind goes over it and it is gone; and its place sees it no longer.
  • Ps 146:4 : 4 Man's breath goes out, he is turned back again to dust; in that day all his purposes come to an end.
  • Eccl 12:7 : 7 And the dust goes back to the earth as it was, and the spirit goes back to God who gave it.

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  • Job 4:20-21
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    20 Between morning and evening they are completely broken; they come to an end for ever, and no one takes note.

    21 If their tent-cord is pulled up, do they not come to an end, and without wisdom?

  • 18 His house has no more strength than a spider's thread, or a watchman's tent.

  • 6 How much less man who is an insect, and the son of man who is a worm!

  • Job 4:17-18
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    17 May a man be upright before God? or a man be clean before his Maker?

    18 Truly, he puts no faith in his servants, and he sees error in his angels;

  • 28 Though a man comes to nothing like a bit of dead wood, or like a robe which has become food for the worm.

  • 26 Together they go down to the dust, and are covered by the worm.

  • 4 Man is like a breath: his life is like a shade which is quickly gone.

  • 18 How frequently are they as dry stems before the wind, or as grass taken away by the storm-wind?

  • 19 How suddenly are they wasted! fears are the cause of their destruction.

  • Job 14:18-19
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    18 But truly a mountain falling comes to dust, and a rock is moved from its place;

    19 The stones are crushed small by the force of the waters; the dust of the earth is washed away by their overflowing: and so you put an end to the hope of man.

  • 28 And he has made his resting-place in the towns which have been pulled down, in houses where no man had a right to be, whose fate was to become masses of broken walls.

  • Job 8:14-15
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    14 Whose support is cut off, and whose hope is no stronger than a spider's thread.

    15 He is looking to his family for support, but it is not there; he puts his hope in it, but it comes to nothing.

  • 19 Truly God has made me low, even to the earth, and I have become like dust.

  • 15 All flesh would come to an end together, and man would go back to the dust.

  • Job 7:5-6
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    5 My flesh is covered with worms and dust; my skin gets hard and then is cracked again.

    6 My days go quicker than the cloth-worker's thread, and come to an end without hope.

  • 16 Who were violently taken away before their time, who were overcome by the rush of waters:

  • 12 Your wise sayings are only dust, and your strong places are only earth.

  • Job 14:2-3
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    2 He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again.

    3 Is it on such a one as this that your eyes are fixed, with the purpose of judging him?

  • 11 By the weight of your wrath against man's sin, the glory of his form is wasted away; truly every man is but a breath. (Selah.)

  • Job 18:14-15
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    14 He is pulled out of his tent where he was safe, and he is taken away to the king of fears.

    15 In his tent will be seen that which is not his, burning stone is dropped on his house.

  • 12 But man, like the animals, does not go on for ever; he comes to an end like the beasts.

  • 17 Under the burning sun they are cut off, and come to nothing because of the heat.

  • 38 When the earth becomes hard as metal, and is joined together in masses?

  • 7 Like the waste from his body he comes to an end for ever: those who have seen him say, Where is he?

  • 4 Man's breath goes out, he is turned back again to dust; in that day all his purposes come to an end.

  • 24 For a short time they are lifted up; then they are gone; they are made low, they are pulled off like fruit, and like the heads of grain they are cut off.

  • 9 By the breath of God destruction takes them, and by the wind of his wrath they are cut off.

  • 12 And so to Ephraim I am like a wasting insect, and a destruction to the children of Judah.

  • 14 With kings and the wise ones of the earth, who put up great houses for themselves;

  • 21 For what interest has he in his house after him, when the number of his months is ended?

  • 20 Suddenly they come to an end, even in the middle of the night: the blow comes on the men of wealth, and they are gone, and the strong are taken away without the hand of man.

  • 14 It is changed like wet earth under a stamp, and is coloured like a robe;

  • 20 All go to one place, all are of the dust, and all will be turned to dust again.

  • 2 Your wealth is unclean and insects have made holes in your clothing.

  • 19 Make no store of wealth for yourselves on earth, where it may be turned to dust by worms and weather, and where thieves may come in by force and take it away.

  • 26 This is why their townsmen had no power, they were broken and put to shame; they were like the grass of the field and the green plant, like grass on the house-tops.

  • 22 Have no more to do with man, whose life is only a breath, for he is of no value.

  • 17 The grains have become small and dry under the spade; the store-houses are made waste, the grain-stores are broken down; for the grain is dry and dead.

  • 11 For see, at the order of the Lord the great house will be full of cracks and the little house will be broken.

  • 16 Though he may get silver together like dust, and make ready great stores of clothing;

  • 15 There the fire will make you waste; you will be cut off by the sword: make yourself as great in number as the worms, as great in number as the locusts.

  • 15 Will you be looking for him to come back, and get in your seed to the crushing-floor?

  • 12 So man goes down to his last resting-place and comes not again: till the heavens come to an end, they will not be awake or come out of their sleep.