Job 4:19

New English Translation

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

Cross References

Genesis 18:27

Then Abraham asked, “Since I have undertaken to speak to the Lord (although I am but dust and ashes),

Genesis 2:7

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

Genesis 3:19

By the sweat of your brow you will eat food until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you will return.”

Job 10:9

Remember that you have made me as with the clay; will you return me to dust?

Job 13:12

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

Job 13:28

So I waste away like something rotten, like a garment eaten by moths.

Job 14:2

He grows up like a flower and then withers away; he flees like a shadow, and does not remain.

Job 22:16

men who were carried off before their time, when the flood was poured out on their foundations?

Job 25:6

how much less a mortal man, who is but a maggot – a son of man, who is only a worm!”

Job 33:6

Look, I am just like you in relation to God; I too have been molded from clay.

Psalm 146:4

Their life’s breath departs, they return to the ground; on that day their plans die.

Psalm 39:11

You severely discipline people for their sins; like a moth you slowly devour their strength. Surely all people are a mere vapor. (Selah)

Ecclesiastes 12:7

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

2 Corinthians 4:7

But we have this treasure in clay jars, so that the extraordinary power belongs to God and does not come from us.

2 Corinthians 5:1

For we know that if our earthly house, the tent we live in, is dismantled, we have a building from God, a house not built by human hands, that is eternal in the heavens.

1 Peter 1:24

For all flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of the grass; the grass withers and the flower falls off,