Job 4:19

New Century Version

So he puts even more blame on people who live in clay houses, whose foundations are made of dust, who can be crushed like a moth.

Cross References

Genesis 18:27

Then Abraham said, “Though I am only dust and ashes, I have been brave to speak to the Lord.

Genesis 2:7

Then the Lord God took dust from the ground and formed a man from it. He breathed the breath of life into the man’s nose, and the man became a living person.

Genesis 3:19

You will sweat and work hard for your food. Later you will return to the ground, because you were taken from it. You are dust, and when you die, you will return to the dust.”

Job 10:9

Remember that you molded me like a piece of clay. Will you now turn me back into dust?

Job 13:12

Your wise sayings are worth no more than ashes, and your arguments are as weak as clay.

Job 13:28

“Everyone wears out like something rotten, like clothing eaten by moths.

Job 14:2

We grow up like flowers and then dry up and die. We are like a passing shadow that does not last.

Job 22:16

They were carried away before their time was up, and their foundations were washed away by a flood.

Job 25:6

People are much less! They are like insects. They are only worms!”

Job 33:6

I am just like you before God; I too am made out of clay.

Psalm 146:4

When people die, they are buried. Then all of their plans come to an end.

Psalm 39:11

You correct and punish people for their sins; like a moth, you destroy what they love. Everyone’s life is only a breath.Selah

Ecclesiastes 12:7

You will turn back into the dust of the earth again, but your spirit will return to God who gave it.

2 Corinthians 4:7

We have this treasure from God, but we are like clay jars that hold the treasure. This shows that the 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 house for us. It will not be a house made by human hands; instead, it will be a home in heaven that will last forever.

1 Peter 1:24

The Scripture says, “All people are like the grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field. The grass dies and the flowers fall,