Then Abraham answered and said, “Look, pray, I have decided to speak to my Lord, though I am dust and ashes.
Job 4:19 - Tree of Life Version how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Which are crushed before the moth? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition How much more those who dwell in houses (bodies) of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who are crushed like the moth. American Standard Version (1901) How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before the moth! Common English Bible how much less those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in dust, and who are crushed like a moth? Catholic Public Domain Version How much more will those who live in houses of clay, which have an earthly foundation, be consumed like the moth? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version How much more shall they that dwell in houses of clay, who have an earthly foundation, be consumed as with the moth? |
Then Abraham answered and said, “Look, pray, I have decided to speak to my Lord, though I am dust and ashes.
Then Adonai Elohim formed the man out of the dust from the ground and He breathed into his nostrils a breath of life—so the man became a living being.
By the sweat of your brow will you eat food, until you return to the ground, since from it were you taken. For you are dust, and to dust will you return.”
Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.
Like a flower he comes up and withers; like a shadow he flees and does not stay.
They were snatched away before their time, their foundations washed away by a river.
His breath departs, he returns to his dust. In that very day his plans perish.
Then the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
But we have this treasure in jars of clay, so that the surpassing greatness of the power may be from God and not from ourselves.
For we know that if the tent, our earthly home, is torn down, we have a building from God—a home not made with human hands, eternal in the heavens.
For, “All humanity is like grass, And all its glory like a wildflower. The grass withers, and the flower falls off,