Job 4:19
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:
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.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!
- KJV
- How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
- WEB
- How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!
- ASV
- How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before the moth!
- DARBY
- How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed as the moth!
- BLB
- how much more those dwelling [in] houses of clay, for whom their foundation is in the dust, [who] are crushed before a moth?
- ÅB
- hvor meget mere da hos dem som bor i hus av leire, og som har sin grunnvoll i støvet - de som knuses lettere enn møll.
- OTB
- Hvor mye mer dem som bor i leirhus,
hvis grunnvoll er i støvet,
som knuses lettere enn en møll! - B1930
- hvor meget mere da hos dem som bor i hus av ler, og som har sin grunnvoll i støvet - de som knuses lettere enn møll.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
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?
Read in contextGenesis 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.
Read in contextGenesis 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.
Read in contextJob 33:6
Behold, I am according to thy wish in God’s stead: I also am formed out of the clay.
Read in contextPsalms 39:11
When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
Read in context2 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.
Read in contextGenesis 18:27
And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes:
Read in context2 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.
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