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Job 4:19

how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!

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ASV

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

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10 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
אַ֤ף׀'afalsoH637 →
שֹׁכְנֵ֬יsho.khe.Nei[those who] dwell ofH7931 →
בָֽתֵּי־va.tei-houses ofH1004 →
חֹ֗מֶרCho.merclayH2563 →
אֲשֶׁר־'a.Sher-whichH834 →
בֶּעָפָ֥רbe.'a.Far[is] in the dustH6083 →
יְסוֹדָ֑םye.so.Damfoundation theirH3247 →
יְ֝דַכְּא֗וּםye.da.ke.'Umpeople crush themH1792 →
לִפְנֵי־lif.nei-<to> beforeH6440 →
עָֽשׁ׃'Asha mothH6211 →

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Job 10:9Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust?Genesis 2:7Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.Genesis 3:19By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground—because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”Job 33:6I am just like you before God; I was also formed from clay.2 Corinthians 5:1Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is dismantled, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.Job 13:12Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.Psalms 39:11You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. SelahGenesis 18:27Then Abraham answered, “Now that I have ventured to speak to the Lord—though I am but dust and ashes—2 Corinthians 4:7Now we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this surpassingly great power is from God and not from us.Job 13:28So man wastes away like something rotten, like a moth-eaten garment.Isaiah 51:8For the moth will devour them like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool. But My righteousness will last forever, My salvation through all generations.”1 Peter 1:24For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,Psalms 103:15–16As for man, his days are like grass— he blooms like a flower of the field;Job 14:2Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.Job 22:16They were snatched away before their time, and their foundations were swept away by a flood.Ecclesiastes 12:7before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.Psalms 90:5–7You whisk them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning—Job 15:16how much less man, who is vile and corrupt, who drinks injustice like water?

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Job Hears of His Misfortunes — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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