And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes:
Job 4:19 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Which are crushed before the moth! More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Which are crushed before the moth? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition How much more those who dwell in houses (bodies) of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who are crushed like the moth. American Standard Version (1901) How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before the moth! Common English Bible how much less those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in dust, and who are crushed like a moth? Catholic Public Domain Version How much more will those who live in houses of clay, which have an earthly foundation, be consumed like the moth? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version How much more shall they that dwell in houses of clay, who have an earthly foundation, be consumed as with the moth? |
And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes:
And the 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.
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.
Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast fashioned me as clay; And wilt thou bring me into dust again?
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defences are defences of clay
Though I am like a rotten thing that consumeth, Like a garment that is moth-eaten.
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
Who were snatched away before their time, Whose foundation was poured out as a stream:
Behold, I am toward God even as thou art: I also am formed out of the clay.
His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; In that very day his thoughts perish.
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
and the dust return to the earth as it was, and the spirit return unto God who gave it.
But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves;
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.
For, All flesh is as grass, And all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower falleth: