Job 4:19

Easy To Read Version

So surely people are worse!\par People live in houses of clay. {\cf2\super [11]} \par The foundations of these houses of clay\par are in the dirt.\par They are crushed to death\par more easily than a moth!\par

Cross References

Genesis 18:27

Then Abraham said, “Compared to you, Lord, I am only dust and ashes. But let me bother you again and ask you this question:

Genesis 2:7

Then the Lord God took dust from the ground and made a man. [9] The Lord breathed the breath of life into the man’s nose, and the man became a living thing.

Genesis 3:19

You will work hard for your food, until your face is covered with sweat. You will work hard until the day you die. And then you will become dust again. I used dust to make you. And when you die you will become dust again.”

Job 10:9

God, remember, you made me like clay.\par Will you make into clay again?\par

Job 13:12

Your arguments are worth nothing.\par Your answers are worthless.\par

Job 13:28

So I am becoming weaker and weaker\par like a piece of wood rotting away,\par like a piece of cloth eaten by moths.”\par

Job 14:2

Man’s life is like a flower. He grows quickly, and then dies away. Man’s life is like a shadow that is here for a short time, and then it is gone.

Job 22:16

Those evil people were destroyed\par before it was their time to die.\par They were washed away by the flood.\par

Job 25:6

People are much less pure.\par People are like maggots, {\cf2\super [46]} \par like worthless worms!”\par

Job 33:6

You and I are the same\par in front of God.\par God used clay to make both of us.\par

Psalm 146:4

People die and are buried.\par And then, all of their plans to help\par are gone.\par

Psalm 39:11

Lord, you punish people for doing wrong\par to teach them the right way to live.\par Like a moth destroys cloth,\par you destroy the things people love.\par Yes, our lives are like a small cloud \{that quickly disappears\}.\par \i (SELAH {\cf2\super [240]})\i0 \par

Ecclesiastes 12:7

Your body came from the earth.\par And when you die,\par your body will go back to the earth.\par But your spirit came from God.\par And when you die,\par your spirit will go back to God.\par

2 Corinthians 4:7

We have this treasure \{from God\}. But we are only like clay jars that hold the treasure. This shows that this great power is from God, not from us.

2 Corinthians 5:1

We know that \{our body\}—the tent we live in here on earth—will be destroyed. But when that happens, God will have a home for us to live in. It will not be a home made by men. It will be a home in heaven that will continue forever.

1 Peter 1:24

The Scripture {\cf2\super [12]} says,