Job 4:19

God's Word

How much more will he accuse those who live in clay houses that have their foundation in the dust. Those houses can be crushed quicker than a moth!

Cross References

Genesis 18:27

Abraham asked, “Consider now, if I may be so bold as to ask you, although I’m ⌞only⌟ dust and ashes,

Genesis 2:7

Then the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the earth  and blew the breath of life into his nostrils. The man became a living being.

Genesis 3:19

By the sweat of your brow, you will produce food to eat until you return to the ground, because you were taken from it. You are dust, and you will return to dust.”

Job 10:9

Please remember that you made me out of clay and that you will return me to the dust again.

Job 13:12

“Your recollections are worthless proverbs. Your answers are absolutely useless.

Job 13:28

I am like worn-out wineskins, like moth-eaten clothes.

Job 14:2

He comes up like a flower; then he withers. He is like a fleeting shadow; he doesn’t stay long.

Job 22:16

They are snatched up before their time. A river washes their foundation away.

Job 25:6

How much less pure is a mortal—who is only a maggot— a descendant of Adam—who is only a worm!”

Job 33:6

Indeed, I stand in front of God as you do. I, too, was formed from a piece of clay.

Psalm 146:4

When they breathe their last breath, they return to the ground. On that day their plans come to an end.

Psalm 39:11

With stern warnings you discipline people for their crimes. Like a moth you eat away at what is dear to them. Certainly, everyone is like a whisper in the wind. Selah

Ecclesiastes 12:7

Then the dust ⌞of mortals⌟ goes back to the ground as it was before, and the breath of life goes back to God who gave it.

2 Corinthians 4:7

Our bodies are made of clay, yet we have the treasure of the Good News in them. This shows that the superior power of this treasure belongs to God and doesn’t come from us.

2 Corinthians 5:1

We know that if the life we live here on earth is ever taken down like a tent, we still have a building from God. It is an eternal house in heaven that isn’t made by human hands.

1 Peter 1:24

“All people are like grass, and all their beauty is like a flower of the field. The grass dries up and the flower drops off,