Job 4:19

Webster's Bible (1833)

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, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?
  • Gen 2:7 : 7 Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
  • Gen 3:19 : 19 By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return."
  • Job 33:6 : 6 Behold, I am toward God even as you are: I am also formed out of the clay.
  • Job 13:12 : 12 Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defenses are defenses of clay.
  • Job 13:28 : 28 Though I am decaying like a rotten thing, Like a garment that is moth-eaten.
  • Gen 18:27 : 27 Abraham answered, "See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, who am but dust and ashes.
  • 2 Cor 4:7 : 7 But we have this treasure in clay 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 tent is 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 like grass, And all of man's glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;
  • Job 14:2 : 2 He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn't continue.
  • Job 22:16 : 16 Who were snatched away before their time, Whose foundation was poured out as a stream,
  • Ps 39:11 : 11 When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, You consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath." Selah.
  • Ps 90:5-7 : 5 You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass. 6 In the morning it sprouts and springs up. By evening, it is withered and dry. 7 For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath.
  • Ps 103:15-16 : 15 As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes. 16 For the wind passes over it, and it is gone. Its place remembers it no more.
  • Ps 146:4 : 4 His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.
  • Eccl 12:7 : 7 And the dust returns to the earth as it was, And the spirit returns to God who gave it.

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