Job 4:19 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁹ how much more those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁹ 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

¹⁹ 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)

¹⁹ 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

¹⁹ 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

¹⁹ How much more will those who live in houses of clay, which have an earthly foundation, be consumed like the moth?

Job 4:19 Cross References

Job 10:9

Remember that you fashioned me like clay, and will you turn me to dust again?

Genesis 2:7

then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

Job 33:6

See, before God I am as you are; I, too, was formed from a piece of clay.

Genesis 3:19

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

2 Corinthians 4:7

But we have this treasure in clay jars, so that it may be made clear that this extraordinary power belongs to God and does not come from us.

Psalm 39:11

“You chastise mortals in punishment for sin, consuming like a moth what is dear to them; surely everyone is a mere breath. Selah

Job 13:28

One wastes away like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

Job 13:12

Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.

Genesis 18:27

Abraham answered, “Let me take it upon myself to speak to my lord, I who am but dust and ashes.

1 Peter 1:24

For “All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls,

2 Corinthians 5:1

For we know that, if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the breath returns to God who gave it.

Psalm 146:4

When their breath departs, they return to the earth; on that very day their plans perish.

Job 22:16

They were snatched away before their time; their foundation was washed away by a flood.

Job 14:2

comes up like a flower and withers, flees like a shadow and does not last.

Job 25:6

how much less a mortal, who is a maggot, and a human being, who is a worm!”