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

Bible References

Dwell

O keep in mind that you made me out of earth; and will you send me back again to dust?

Your wise sayings are only dust, and your strong places are only earth.

See, I am the same as you are in the eyes of God; I was cut off from the same bit of wet earth.

And the Lord God made man from the dust of the earth, breathing into him the breath of life: and man became a living soul.

With the hard work of your hands you will get your bread till you go back to the earth from which you were taken: for dust you are and to the dust you will go back.

And Abraham answering said, Truly, I who am only dust, have undertaken to put my thoughts before the Lord:

And the dust goes back to the earth as it was, and the spirit goes back to God who gave it.

But we have this wealth in vessels of earth, so that it may be seen that the power comes not from us but from God;

For we are conscious that if this our tent of flesh is taken down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in heaven.

Crushed

Though a man comes to nothing like a bit of dead wood, or like a robe which has become food for the worm.

He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again.

By the weight of your wrath against man's sin, the glory of his form is wasted away; truly every man is but a breath. (Selah.)

As for man, his days are as grass: his beautiful growth is like the flower of the field.

Man's breath goes out, he is turned back again to dust; in that day all his purposes come to an end.

For it is said, All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the grass. The grass becomes dry and the flower dead: