Verse 19

how much more to those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth?

Referenced Verses

  • Job 10:9 : 9 Remember that you have made me as with the clay; will you return me to dust?
  • Gen 2:7 : 7 The LORD God formed the man from the soil of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
  • Gen 3:19 : 19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat food until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you will return.”
  • Job 33:6 : 6 Look, I am just like you in relation to God; I too have been molded from clay.
  • Job 13:12 : 12 Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.
  • Job 13:28 : 28 So I waste away like something rotten, like a garment eaten by moths.
  • Gen 18:27 : 27 Then Abraham asked,“Since I have undertaken to speak to the Lord(although I am but dust and ashes),
  • 2 Cor 4:7 : 7 An Eternal Weight of Glory But we have this treasure in clay jars, so that the extraordinary power belongs to God and does not come from us.
  • 2 Cor 5:1 : 1 Living by Faith, Not by Sight For we know that if our earthly house, the tent we live in, is dismantled, we have a building from God, a house not built by human hands, that is eternal in the heavens.
  • 1 Pet 1:24 : 24 For all flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of the grass; the grass withers and the flower falls off,
  • Job 14:2 : 2 He grows up like a flower and then withers away; he flees like a shadow, and does not remain.
  • Job 22:16 : 16 men who were carried off before their time, when the flood was poured out on their foundations?
  • Ps 39:11 : 11 You severely discipline people for their sins; like a moth you slowly devour their strength. Surely all people are a mere vapor.(Selah)
  • Ps 90:5-7 : 5 You bring their lives to an end and they“fall asleep.” In the morning they are like the grass that sprouts up; 6 in the morning it glistens and sprouts up; at evening time it withers and dries up. 7 Yes, we are consumed by your anger; we are terrified by your wrath.
  • Ps 103:15-16 : 15 A person’s life is like grass. Like a flower in the field it flourishes, 16 but when the hot wind blows by, it disappears, and one can no longer even spot the place where it once grew.
  • Ps 146:4 : 4 Their life’s breath departs, they return to the ground; on that day their plans die.
  • Eccl 12:7 : 7 and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the life’s breath returns to God who gave it.