Job 4:19 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁹How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?

Job 4:19 —

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Cross-References

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Genesis 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.
Job 10:9
Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?
Genesis 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.
Job 33:6
Behold, I am according to thy wish in God's stead: I also am formed out of the clay.
2 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.

Topics

Angel (a Spirit)Assurance Atheism Attributes of God Believing Clay Creation Depravity of Man

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 12-21)

Eliphaz, having undertaken to convince Job of the sin and folly of his discontent and impatience, here vouches a vision he had been favoured with, which he relates to Job for his conviction. What comes immediately from God all men will pay a particular deference to, and Job, no doubt, as much as any. Some think Eliphaz had this vision now lately, since he came to Job, putting words into his mouth…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 19)

19. houses of clay--(2Co 5:1). Houses made of sun-dried clay bricks are common in the East; they are easily washed away (Mt 7:27). Man’s foundation is this dust (Ge 3:19). before the moth--rather, “as before the moth,” which devours a garment (Job 13:28; Psa 39:11; Is 50:9). Man, who cannot, in a physical point of view, stand before the very moth, surely cannot, in a moral, stand before God.