Parallel Verses
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!
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!
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.
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 Behold, he putteth no trust in his servants; And his angels he chargeth with folly: 19 How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before the moth! 20 Betwixt morning and evening they are destroyed: They perish for ever without any regarding it.
Names
Cross References
Genesis 2:7
And Jehovah God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Job 10:9
Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast fashioned me as clay; And wilt thou bring me into dust again?
Genesis 3:19
in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Job 33:6
Behold, I am toward God even as thou art: I also am formed out of the clay.
Genesis 18:27
And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, who am but dust and ashes:
Job 13:12
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defences are defences of clay.
Job 13:28
Though I am like a rotten thing that consumeth, Like a garment that is moth-eaten.
2 Corinthians 4:7
But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves;
2 Corinthians 5:1
For we know that if the earthly house of our tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.
Job 14:2
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
Job 22:16
Who were snatched away before their time, Whose foundation was poured out as a stream,
Psalm 39:11
When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, Thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: Surely every man is vanity. Selah
Psalm 90:5-7
Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: In the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
Psalm 103:15-16
As for man, his days are as grass; As a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
Psalm 146:4
His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; In that very day his thoughts perish.
Ecclesiastes 12:7
and the dust returneth to the earth as it was, and the spirit returneth unto God who gave it.
1 Peter 1:24
For, All flesh is as grass, And all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower falleth: