Job 4:19

WEB

¹⁹How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!

KJV

¹⁹How much less^[+] in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?

BSB

¹⁹how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!

FBV

¹⁹how much more does this apply to those who live in these houses made of clay,^[+] foundations are based on dust, who fall apart like clothing to a moth?

Extra References

Genesis 2:7

⁷The LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Job 10:9

⁹Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?

Genesis 3:19

¹⁹You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”

Job 33:6

⁶Behold, I am toward God even as you are. I am also formed out of the clay.

2 Corinthians 4:7

⁷But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God and not from ourselves.

Psalms 39:11

¹¹When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, you consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath.” Selah.

Job 13:12

¹²Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes. Your defenses are defenses of clay.

Job 13:28

²⁸though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

Genesis 18:27

²⁷Abraham answered, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, although I am dust and ashes.

1 Peter 1:24

²⁴For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;