Job 4:19
‘How much more [will He blame and charge] those who dwell in houses (bodies) of clay,
Whose foundations are in the dust,
Who are crushed like a moth.
Genesis 2:7
then the Lord God
Job 10:9
‘Remember now, that You have made me as clay;
So will You turn me into dust again?
Genesis 3:19
“By the sweat of your face
You will eat bread
Until you return to the ground,
For from it you were taken;
For you are dust,
And to dust you shall return.”
Job 33:6
“Behold, I belong to God like you;
I too was formed out of the clay.
Genesis 18:27
Abraham answered, “Now behold, I who am but dust [in origin] and ashes have decided to speak to the Lord.
Job 13:12
“Your memorable sayings are [worthless, merely] proverbs of ashes;
Your defenses are defenses of [crumbling] clay.
Job 13:28
While I waste away like a rotten thing,
Like a garment that is moth-eaten.
2 Corinthians 4:7
But we have this precious treasure [the good news about salvation] in [unworthy] earthen vessels [of human frailty], so that the grandeur and surpassing greatness of the power will be [shown to be] from God [His sufficiency] and not from ourselves.
2 Corinthians 5:1
For we know that if the earthly tent [our physical body] which is our house is torn down [through death], we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
Job 14:2
“Like a flower he comes forth and withers;
He also flees like a shadow and does not remain.
Job 22:16
Men who were snatched away before their time,
Whose foundations were poured out like a river?
Psalm 39:11
“With rebukes You discipline man for sin;
You consume like a moth what is precious to him;
Surely every man is a mere breath [a wisp of smoke, a vapor that vanishes]. Selah.
Psalm 90:5-7
You have swept them away like a flood, they fall asleep [forgotten as soon as they are gone];
In the morning they are like grass which grows anew—
Psalm 103:15-16
As for man, his days are like grass;
Like a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
Psalm 146:4
When his spirit leaves him, he returns to the earth;
In that very day his thoughts and plans perish.
Ecclesiastes 12:7
then the dust [out of which God made man’s body] will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.
1 Peter 1:24
For,
And all its glory like the flower of grass.
The grass withers
And the flower falls off,
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Dwell
Bible References
Dwell
‘Remember now, that You have made me as clay;
So will You turn me into dust again?
“Your memorable sayings are [worthless, merely] proverbs of ashes;
Your defenses are defenses of [crumbling] clay.
“Behold, I belong to God like you;
I too was formed out of the clay.
“By the sweat of your face
You will eat bread
Until you return to the ground,
For from it you were taken;
For you are dust,
And to dust you shall return.”
Crushed
While I waste away like a rotten thing,
Like a garment that is moth-eaten.
“Like a flower he comes forth and withers;
He also flees like a shadow and does not remain.
“With rebukes You discipline man for sin;
You consume like a moth what is precious to him;
Surely every man is a mere breath [a wisp of smoke, a vapor that vanishes]. Selah.
You have swept them away like a flood, they fall asleep [forgotten as soon as they are gone];
In the morning they are like grass which grows anew—
As for man, his days are like grass;
Like a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
When his spirit leaves him, he returns to the earth;
In that very day his thoughts and plans perish.
And all its glory like the flower of grass.
The grass withers
And the flower falls off,