Job 4:19 · KJV
“How much less {in} them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation {is} in the dust, {which} are crushed before the moth?”
— Job 4:19
Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly: {and his...: or, nor in his angels, in whom he put light}
They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding {it}. {destroyed: Heb. beaten in pieces}
Job 4 — Context
Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
18Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly: {and his...: or, nor in his angels, in whom he put light}
19How much less {in} them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation {is} in the dust, {which} are crushed before the moth?
20They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding {it}. {destroyed: Heb. beaten in pieces}
21Doth not their excellency {which is} in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.
Cross References
Job 10:9
Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?
Genesis 2:7
And the LORD God formed man {of} the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. {of the dust...: Heb. dust of the ground}
Genesis 3:19
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou {art}, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Job 33:6
Behold, I {am} according to thy wish in God's stead: I also am formed out of the clay. {wish: Heb. mouth} {formed: Heb. cut}
Job 13:12
Your remembrances {are} like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
2 Corinthians 4:7
But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
2 Corinthians 5:1
For we know that if our earthly house of {this} tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
Job 13:28
And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.