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

‘Remember now, that You have made me as clay;
And would You turn me into dust again?

“Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes,
Your defenses are defenses of clay.

“Behold, I belong to God like you;
I too have been formed out of the clay.

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

By the sweat of your face
You will eat bread,
Till you return to the ground,
Because from it you were taken;
For you are dust,
And to dust you shall return.”

And Abraham replied, “Now behold, I have ventured to speak to the Lord, although I am but dust and ashes.

then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the

spirit will return to God who gave it.

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the surpassing greatness of the power will be of God and not from ourselves;

For we know that if the earthly tent which is our house is torn down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

Crushed

While I am decaying 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 reproofs You chasten a man for iniquity;
You consume as a moth what is precious to him;
Surely every man is a mere breath. Selah.

You have swept them away like a flood, they

fall asleep;

In the morning they are like grass which sprouts anew.

As for man, his days are like grass;
As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.

His spirit departs, he returns to the earth;
In that very day his thoughts perish.

For,
“All flesh is like grass,
And all its glory like the flower of grass.
The grass withers,
And the flower falls off,