Parallel Verses

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?

New American Standard Bible

‘How much more those who dwell in houses of clay,
Whose foundation is in the dust,
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

how much more those who dwell in clay houses,
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!

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 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.)

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
אף 
'aph 
Usage: 134

שׁכן 
Shakan 
Usage: 128

in houses
בּית 
Bayith 
Usage: 2053

of clay
חמר 
Chomer 
Usage: 31

יסוד 
Y@cowd 
Usage: 20

is in the dust
עפר 
`aphar 
Usage: 110

דּכא 
Daka' 
Usage: 18

פּנים 
Paniym 
Usage: 2119

References

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Smith

Watsons

Context Readings

A Secret Was Told To Me

18 Behold, He puts no trust in His servants, and His angels He charges with folly! 19 How much less in those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth? 20 They are destroyed from morning till evening; they perish forever without anyone caring.

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 You, that You have formed me as the clay; and will You bring me into the dust again?

Genesis 3:19

In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.

Job 33:6

Behold, I am toward God even as you are; 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 to Jehovah, who am but dust and ashes.

Job 13:12

Your remembered sayings are like ashes, your bodies like bodies of clay.

Job 13:28

And he wears out like a rotten thing, like a garment that a moth eats.

2 Corinthians 4:7

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us;

2 Corinthians 5:1

For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

Job 14:2

He comes forth like a flower, and withers; he also flees as a shadow, and does not stand.

Job 22:16

They were seized, but there was not time; their foundation was poured out by a flood;

Psalm 39:11

You correct a man for iniquity with rebukes, and you make his desires vanish away like a moth. Surely every man is vanity. Selah.

Psalm 90:5-7

You carry them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep; in the morning they are like grass which grows up.

Psalm 103:15-16

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

Psalm 146:4

His breath goes forth; he returns to the earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

then the dust shall return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return to God who gave it.

1 Peter 1:24

For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of men as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls out,

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