Job 4:19

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth.

Cross References

Genesis 18:27

Abraham answered, “Behold, I have taken upon myself to speak to the Lord, I who am but dust and ashes.

Genesis 2:7

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

Genesis 3:19

In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”

Job 10:9

Remember that thou hast made me of clay; and wilt thou turn me to dust again?

Job 13:12

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

Job 13:28

Man wastes away like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

Job 14:2

He comes forth like a flower, and withers; he flees like a shadow, and continues not.

Job 22:16

They were snatched away before their time; their foundation was washed away.

Job 25:6

how much less man, who is a maggot, and the son of man, who is a worm!”

Job 33:6

Behold, I am toward God as you are; I too was formed from a piece of clay.

Psalm 146:4

When his breath departs he returns to his earth; on that very day his plans perish.

Psalm 39:11

When thou dost chasten man with rebukes for sin, thou dost consume like a moth what is dear to him; surely every man is a mere breath! Selah

Ecclesiastes 12:7

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

2 Corinthians 4:7

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, to show that the transcendent power belongs to God and not to us.

2 Corinthians 5:1

For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

1 Peter 1:24

for “All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls,