Job 4:19

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Job 4:17–21 · Berean Standard Bible

17 ‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?

18 If God puts no trust in His servants, and He charges His angels with error,

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

20 They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; unnoticed, they perish forever.

21 Are not their tent cords pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?’

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Job 10:9

Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust?

Job 13:12

Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.

Job 33:6

I am just like you before God; I was also formed from clay.

Genesis 2:7

Then 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 3:19

By 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.”

Genesis 18:27

Then Abraham answered, “Now that I have ventured to speak to the Lord—though I am but dust and ashes—

Ecclesiastes 12:7

before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

2 Corinthians 4:7

Now we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this surpassingly great power is from God and not from us.

2 Corinthians 5:1

Now 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 13:28

So man wastes away like something rotten, like a moth-eaten garment.

Job 14:2

Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.

Psalms 39:11

You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah

Psalms 90:5

You whisk them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning—

Psalms 90:6

in the morning it springs up new, but by evening it fades and withers.

Psalms 90:7

For we are consumed by Your anger and terrified by Your wrath.

Psalms 103:15

As for man, his days are like grass— he blooms like a flower of the field;

Psalms 103:16

when the wind passes over, it vanishes, and its place remembers it no more.

Psalms 146:4

When his spirit departs, he returns to the ground; on that very day his plans perish.

1 Peter 1:24

For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,