Job 4:19

New International Reader's Version

So he’ll certainly find fault with human beings. After all, they are made out of dust. They can be crushed more easily than a moth.

Cross References

Genesis 18:27

Then Abraham spoke up again. He said, “I have been very bold to speak to the Lord. After all, I’m only dust and ashes.

Genesis 2:7

Then the Lord God formed a man. He made him out of the dust of the ground. God breathed the breath of life into him. And the man became a living person.

Genesis 3:19

You will have to work hard and sweat a lot to produce the food you eat. You were made out of the ground. You will return to it when you die. You are dust, and you will return to dust.”

Job 10:9

Remember, you molded me like clay. So are you going to turn me back into dust?

Job 13:12

Your sayings are as useless as ashes. The answers you give are as weak as clay.

Job 13:28

“People waste away like something that is rotten. They are like clothes that are eaten by moths.

Job 14:2

They grow like flowers, and then they dry up. They are like shadows that quickly disappear.

Job 22:16

They were carried off even before they died. Their foundations were washed away by a flood.

Job 25:6

So how about human beings? They are like maggots. How about mere people? They are like worms.”

Job 33:6

To God I’m just the same as you. I too am a piece of clay.

Psalm 146:4

When they die, they return to the ground. On that day their plans come to nothing.

Psalm 39:11

You correct and punish people for their sin. Then, just as a moth eats cloth, you destroy their wealth. No one lasts any longer than a breath.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

Remember your Creator before you return to the dust you came from. Remember him before your spirit goes back to God who gave it.

2 Corinthians 4:7

Treasure is kept in clay jars. In the same way, we have the treasure of the good news in these earthly bodies of ours. That shows that the mighty power of the good news comes from God. It doesn’t come from us.

2 Corinthians 5:1

We know that the earthly tent we live in will be destroyed. But we have a building made by God. It is a house in heaven that lasts forever. Human hands did not build it.

1 Peter 1:24

It is written, “All people are like grass. All their glory is like the flowers in the field. The grass dries up. The flowers fall to the ground.