KJV King James Version
How much less [in] them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation [is] in the dust, [which] are crushed before the moth?
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Job 4:19
How much less [in] them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation [is] in the dust, [which] are crushed before the moth?
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!
WEB World English Bible
How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!
ASV American Standard Version
How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before the moth!
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Also—the inhabitants of houses of clay, (Whose foundation is in the dust, They bruise them before a moth.)
Surrounding context — Job 4
16 It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image [was] before mine eyes, [there was] silence, and I heard a voice, [saying],
17 Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
18 Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly:
19 How much less [in] them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation [is] in the dust, [which] are crushed before the moth?
20 They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding [it].
21 Doth not their excellency [which is] in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.
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Job 10:9Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?Genesis 2:7And 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.Genesis 3:19In 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 33:6Behold, I [am] according to thy wish in God’s stead: I also am formed out of the clay.Job 13:28And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.Genesis 18:27And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which [am but] dust and ashes:Job 13:12Your remembrances [are] like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.2 Corinthians 4:7But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.2 Corinthians 5:1For 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.Psalm 39:11When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man [is] vanity. Selah.Job 14:2He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.Job 22:16Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:Psalm 103:15-16[As for] man, his days [are] as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.Psalm 90:5-7Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are [as] a sleep: in the morning [they are] like grass [which] groweth up.Ecclesiastes 12:7Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.1 Peter 1:24For all flesh [is] as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:Psalm 146:4His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.
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