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 that you have made me as with the clay; will you return me to dust?

Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.

Look, I am just like you in relation to God; I too have been molded from clay.

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

By the sweat of your brow you will eat food until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you will return."

Then Abraham asked, "Since I have undertaken to speak to the Lord (although I am but dust and ashes),

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the life's breath returns to God who gave it.

But we have this treasure in clay jars, so that the extraordinary power belongs to God and does not come from us.

For we know that if our earthly house, the tent we live in, is dismantled, we have a building from God, a house not built by human hands, that is eternal in the heavens.

Crushed

So I waste away like something rotten, like a garment eaten by moths.

He grows up like a flower and then withers away; he flees like a shadow, and does not remain.

You severely discipline people for their sins; like a moth you slowly devour their strength. Surely all people are a mere vapor. (Selah)

You bring their lives to an end and they "fall asleep." In the morning they are like the grass that sprouts up;

A person's life is like grass. Like a flower in the field it flourishes,

Their life's breath departs, they return to the ground; on that day their plans die.

For all flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of the grass; the grass withers and the flower falls off,