Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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
Bible References
Dwell
Job 10:9
‘Remember now, that You have made me as clay;
So will You turn me into dust again?
‘Remember now, that You have made me as clay;
So will You turn me into dust again?
Job 13:12
“Your memorable sayings are [worthless, merely] proverbs of ashes;
Your defenses are defenses of [crumbling] clay.
“Your memorable sayings are [worthless, merely] proverbs of ashes;
Your defenses are defenses of [crumbling] clay.
Job 33:6
“Behold, I belong to God like you;
I too was formed out of the clay.
“Behold, I belong to God like you;
I too was formed out of the clay.
Genesis 2:7
then the Lord God formed [that is, created the body of] man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living being [an individual complete in body and spirit].
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.”
“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.”
Genesis 18:27
Abraham answered, “Now behold, I who am but dust [in origin] and ashes have decided to speak to the Lord.
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.
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.
Crushed
Job 13:28
While I waste away like a rotten thing,
Like a garment that is moth-eaten.
While I waste away like a rotten thing,
Like a garment that is moth-eaten.
Job 14:2
“Like a flower he comes forth and withers;
He also flees like a shadow and does not remain.
“Like a flower he comes forth and withers;
He also flees like a shadow and does not remain.
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.
“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
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—
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
As for man, his days are like grass;
Like a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
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.
When his spirit leaves him, he returns to the earth;
In that very day his thoughts and plans perish.
1 Peter 1:24
For,“All flesh is like grass,
And all its glory like the flower of grass.
The grass withers
And the flower falls off,
And all its glory like the flower of grass.
The grass withers
And the flower falls off,