Parallel Verses
Amplified
‘How much more [will He blame and charge] those who dwell in houses (bodies) of clay,
Whose foundations are in the dust,
Who are crushed like a moth.
New American Standard Bible
Whose
Who are crushed before the moth!
King James Version
How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
Holman Bible
whose foundation is in the dust,
who are crushed like a moth!
International Standard Version
how much less confidence does he have in those who dwell in houses of clay; who were formed from a foundation in dust and can perish like a moth?
A Conservative Version
How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!
American Standard Version
How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before the moth!
Bible in Basic English
How much more those living in houses of earth, whose bases are in the dust! They are crushed more quickly than an insect;
Darby Translation
How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed as the moth!
Julia Smith Translation
Also those dwelling in houses of clay which their foundation in the dust, being crushed before the moth.
King James 2000
How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth?
Lexham Expanded Bible
How much more dwellers in clay houses, whose foundation [is] in the dust? They are crushed like a moth.
Modern King James verseion
How much less in those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
How much more then shall they that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is but earth: which shall be consumed by the moth?
NET Bible
how much more to those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth?
New Heart English Bible
How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth.
The Emphasized Bible
How much more the dwellers in houses of clay, which, in the dust, have their foundation, which are crushed sooner than a moth:
Webster
How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth?
World English Bible
How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!
Youngs Literal Translation
Also -- the inhabitants of houses of clay, (Whose foundation is in the dust, They bruise them before a moth.)
Themes
Dream » Instances of » Of eliphaz, of a spirit speaking to him
Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Moth
Insignificance of man » A tenant in a house of clay
Man » Little lower than the angels
Man » Apparent insignificance of » A tenant in a house of clay
Topics
Interlinear
Shakan
Daka'
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 4:19
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Secret Was Told To Me
18
‘God puts no trust or confidence, even in His [heavenly] servants,
And He charges His angels with error.
‘How much more [will He blame and charge] those who dwell in houses (bodies) of clay,
Whose foundations are in the dust,
Who are crushed like a moth.
‘Between morning and evening they are broken in pieces and destroyed;
Unobserved and unnoticed, they perish forever.
Names
Cross References
Genesis 2:7
then the Lord God
Job 10:9
‘Remember now, that You have made me as clay;
So will You turn me into dust again?
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.”
Job 33:6
“Behold, I belong to God like you;
I too was formed out of the clay.
Genesis 18:27
Abraham answered, “Now behold, I who am but dust [in origin] and ashes have decided to speak to the Lord.
Job 13:12
“Your memorable sayings are [worthless, merely] proverbs of ashes;
Your defenses are defenses of [crumbling] clay.
Job 13:28
While I waste away like a rotten thing,
Like a garment that is moth-eaten.
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.
Job 14:2
“Like a flower he comes forth and withers;
He also flees like a shadow and does not remain.
Job 22:16
Men who were snatched away before their time,
Whose foundations were poured out like a river?
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.
Psalm 90:5-7
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 103:15-16
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.
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.
1 Peter 1:24
For,
And all its glory like the flower of grass.
The grass withers
And the flower falls off,