Job 4:19

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Summary

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

Dwell

Crushed

1 Peter 1:24

Bible References

Dwell

Please remember that You formed me like clay.
Will You now return me to dust?

Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ash;
your defenses are made of clay.

I am just like you before God;
I was also pinched off from a piece of clay.

Then the Lord God formed the man out of the dust from the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.

You will eat bread by the sweat of your brow
until you return to the ground,
since you were taken from it.
For you are dust,
and you will return to dust.”

Then Abraham answered, “Since I have ventured to speak to the Lord—even though I am dust and ashes—

and the dust returns to the earth as it once was,
and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Now we have this treasure in clay jars, so that this extraordinary power may be from God and not from us.

For we know that if our temporary, earthly dwelling

is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal dwelling in the heavens, not made with hands.

Crushed

Man wears out like something rotten,
like a moth-eaten garment.

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He blossoms like a flower, then withers;
he flees like a shadow and does not last.

You discipline a man with punishment for sin,
consuming like a moth what is precious to him;
every man is only a vapor.Selah

You end their lives; they sleep.
They are like grass that grows in the morning—

As for man, his days are like grass—
he blooms like a flower of the field;

When his breath leaves him,
he returns to the ground;
on that day his plans die.

For

All flesh is like grass,
and all its glory

like a flower of the grass.

The grass withers, and the flower falls,