Job 4:19

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אַ֤ף ׀ שֹׁכְנֵ֬י בָֽתֵּי־חֹ֗מֶר אֲשֶׁר־בֶּעָפָ֥ר יְסוֹדָ֑ם יְ֝דַכְּא֗וּם לִפְנֵי־עָֽשׁ׃

Transliteration

How much more ʾap šōḵənê bāttê-ḥōmer who ʾăšer-be-ʿāpār yəsôdām yədakkəʾûm before lipnê-ʿāš

Grammar Details

• *ʾap*: conjunction/adverb - how much more/also/even
• *šōḵənê*: Qal participle, masculine plural construct - dwellers of
• *bāttê-ḥōmer*: noun, masculine plural construct + noun, masculine singular - houses of clay
• *ʾăšer-be-ʿāpār*: relative pronoun + preposition + noun, masculine singular - which in dust
• *yəsôdām*: noun, masculine singular + 3rd person masculine plural suffix - their foundation
• *yədakkəʾûm*: Piel imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural + 3rd person masculine plural suffix - they crush them
• *lipnê-ʿāš*: preposition + noun, masculine singular - before the moth

Word Meanings

• *šōḵənê*: dwellers/inhabitants/residents
• *bāttê-ḥōmer*: houses of clay/dirt/material
• *ʿāpār*: dust/dirt/earth
• *yəsôdām*: their foundation/basis/beginning
• *yədakkəʾûm*: they crush them/oppress them/break them
• *ʿāš*: moth/insect

Referenced Verses

• Job 10:9 : 9 Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?
• Gen 2:7 : 7 And the LORD 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 according to thy wish in God's stead: I also am formed out of the clay.
• Job 13:12 : 12 Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
• Job 13:28 : 28 And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as 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, which am but dust and ashes:
• 2 Cor 4:7 : 7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
• 2 Cor 5:1 : 1 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
• 1 Pet 1:24 : 24 For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
• 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 Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:
• Ps 39:11 : 11 When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty{H8803)} to consume away{H8686)} like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
• Ps 90:5-7 : 5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood{H8804)}; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up{H8799)}. 6 In the morning it flourisheth{H8686)}, and groweth up{H8804)}; in the evening it is cut down{H8787)}, and withereth{H8804)}. 7 For we are consumed{H8804)} by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled{H8738)}.
• 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 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.