Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Body » House of clay
How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!
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Clay » Figurative
But now, O LORD, thou are our Father. We are the clay, and thou our potter, and we are all the work of thy hand.
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Or has the potter no right over the clay, from the same lump certainly to make this vessel for esteem, and that for disesteem?
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How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!
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He also brought me up out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and he set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
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Woe to him who strives with his maker, a potsherd among the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay say to him that fashions it, What are thou making? or thy work, He has no hands?
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O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? says LORD. Behold, as the clay in the potter's hand, so are ye in my hand, O house of Israel.
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Dream » Instances of » Of eliphaz, of a spirit speaking to him
Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and my ear received a whisper of it. In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. read more.
Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up. It stood still, but I could not discern the appearance of it. A form was before my eyes. [There was] silence, and I heard a voice, [saying], Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his maker? Behold, he puts no trust in his servants, and he charges his [heavenly] agents with folly. How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth! Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it. Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.
Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up. It stood still, but I could not discern the appearance of it. A form was before my eyes. [There was] silence, and I heard a voice, [saying], Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his maker? Behold, he puts no trust in his servants, and he charges his [heavenly] agents with folly. How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth! Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it. Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.
Ground » Man made from
And LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul.
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therefore LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from where he was taken.
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In the sweat of thy face thou shall eat bread, till thou return to the ground, for out of it thou were taken. For thou are dust, and to dust thou shall return.
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How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!
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Behold, I am toward God even as thou are. I also am formed out of the clay.
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Insects » Locusts » Moths
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust deteriorates, and where thieves break through and steal,
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How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!
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He builds his house as the moth, and as a booth which the keeper makes.
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Behold, lord LORD will help me. Who is he who shall condemn me? Behold, all they shall grow old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.
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Though I am like a rotten thing that decays, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
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Your wealth has decayed, and your garments have become moth-eaten.
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Therefore I am to Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.
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Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Moth
How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!
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He builds his house as the moth, and as a booth which the keeper makes.
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Behold, lord LORD will help me. Who is he who shall condemn me? Behold, all they shall grow old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.
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Insignificance of man » A tenant in a house of clay
How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!
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What is man, that thou should magnify him, and that thou should set thy mind upon him,
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Man » Insignificance of
When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou have ordained, what is man that thou remember him? And the son of man that thou succor him?
Where were thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if thou have understanding.
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What is man, that he should be clean? And he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
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Behold, he puts no trust in his servants, and he charges his [heavenly] agents with folly. How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!
Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself. Is it any pleasure to the Almighty that thou are righteous? Or is it gain [to him] that thou make thy ways perfect? Is it for thy fear [of him] that he reproves thee, that he enters with thee into judgment? read more.
Is not thy wickedness great? Neither is there any end to thine iniquities.
Is not thy wickedness great? Neither is there any end to thine iniquities.
How then can man be just with God? Or how can he be clean who is born of a woman? Behold, even the moon has no brightness. And the stars are not pure in his sight. How much less man, who is a worm! And the son of man, who is a worm!
What [is] this thou think in judgment? Who are thou that thou said, I am righteousness before LORD? That thou said, What advantage will it be to thee? [And], What profit shall I have more than if I had sinned? I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee. read more.
Look to the heavens, and see. And behold the skies, which are higher than thou. If thou have sinned, what do thou effect against him? And if thy transgressions be multiplied, what do thou to him? If thou be righteous, what do thou give him? Or what does he receive of thy hand? Thy wickedness [is] a man as thou are, and thy righteousness [is] a son of man.
Look to the heavens, and see. And behold the skies, which are higher than thou. If thou have sinned, what do thou effect against him? And if thy transgressions be multiplied, what do thou to him? If thou be righteous, what do thou give him? Or what does he receive of thy hand? Thy wickedness [is] a man as thou are, and thy righteousness [is] a son of man.
Have thou commanded the morning since thy days [began], [and] caused the dayspring to know its place that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and the wicked be shaken out of it?
LORD, what is man, that thou take knowledge of him? Or the son of man, that thou make account of him? Man is like vanity. His days are as a shadow that passes away.
Man » Little lower than the angels
For thou have made him but little lower than [heavenly] agents, and crowned him with glory and honor.
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Thou made him a little something less than the heavenly agents. Thou crowned him with glory and honor. Thou subordinated all things under his feet. For in subordinating all things to him, he left nothing not subordinate to him. But now we do not yet see all things subordinated to him.
Behold, he puts no trust in his servants, and he charges his [heavenly] agents with folly. How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth! Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it. read more.
Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.
Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.
Man » Apparent insignificance of » A tenant in a house of clay
How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!
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What is man, that thou should magnify him, and that thou should set thy mind upon him,
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Man » Insignificance of » A tenant in a house of clay
How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!
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What is man, that thou should magnify him, and that thou should set thy mind upon him,
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Moth » An insect
When thou have corrected man with rebukes for iniquity, thou make his beauty to disintegrate like a moth. Surely every man is vanity. Selah.
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How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!
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He builds his house as the moth, and as a booth which the keeper makes.
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Moths » Destroyed by the slightest touch
How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!
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