Job 4:19

Job chapter 4 · verse 19 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before the moth!

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before the moth!

Context

v.18Behold, he putteth no trust in his servants; And his angels he chargeth with folly:

v.19This passage

v.20Betwixt morning and evening they are destroyed: They perish for ever without any regarding it.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Psalms 103:15

    As for man, his days are as grass; As a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.

  • Job 13:28

    Though I am like a rotten thing that consumeth, Like a garment that is moth-eaten.

  • 2 Corinthians 5:1

    For we know that if the earthly house of our tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

  • 1 Peter 1:24

    For, All flesh is as grass, And all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower falleth:

  • Ecclesiastes 12:7

    and the dust returneth to the earth as it was, and the spirit returneth unto God who gave it.

  • Genesis 18:27

    And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, who am but dust and ashes: