Job 4:19

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

Crushed

1 Peter 1:24

Bible References

Dwell

""Please remember that you've made me like clay and you'll return me to dust.

Your maxims are just worthless proverbs; your defensive arguments are made of clay."

Look! As far as God is concerned, I'm just like you are I, too, have been pinched off from a piece of clay.

So the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground, breathed life into his lungs, and the man became a living being.

You will eat food by the sweat of your brow until you're buried in the ground, because you were taken from it. You're made from dust and you'll return to dust."

Abraham answered, "Look, even though I am only dust and ashes, I've ventured to speak to my LORD.

then man's dust will go back to the earth, returning to what it was, and the spirit will return to the God who gave it.

But we have this treasure in clay jars to show that its extraordinary power comes from God and not from us.

We know that if the earthly tent we live in is torn down, we have a building in heaven that comes from God, an eternal house not built by human hands.

Crushed

So I'm a man who wears out like something rotten, like a garment that has become moth-eaten."

He springs up like a flower and then withers. Like a shadow, he disappears and doesn't last.

You rebuke by chastening a man with the consequence of iniquities; you destroy what is attractive to him, as one would treat a moth. Indeed, every person is a puff of wind. Interlude

You will sweep them away while they are asleep by morning they are like growing grass.

A person's life is like grass it blossoms like wild flowers,

When they stop breathing, they return to the ground; on that very day their plans evaporate!

For "All human life is like grass, and all its glory is like a flower in the grass. The grass dries up and the flower drops off,