Job 4:19
What does Job 4:19 mean?
A plain-English look at Job 4:19 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
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WEB
World English Bible · 2000How 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 · 1611How 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 · 1901How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before the moth!
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949How much more those living in houses of earth, whose bases are in the dust! They are crushed more quickly than an insect;
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862Also--the inhabitants of houses of clay, (Whose foundation <FI>is<Fi> in the dust, They bruise them before a moth.)
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752How much more shall they that dwell in houses of clay, who have an earthly foundation, be consumed as with the moth?
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed as the moth!
Context
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:
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