Job 4:19
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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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. {of the dust...: Heb. dust of the ground}
Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?
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.
Behold, I {am} according to thy wish in God's stead: I also am formed out of the clay. {wish: Heb. mouth} {formed: Heb. cut}
But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man {is} vanity. Selah. {his...: Heb. that which is to be desired in him to melt away}
Your remembrances {are} like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which {am but} dust and ashes:
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
For we know that if our earthly house of {this} tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood: {whose...: Heb. a flood was poured upon their foundation}
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are {as} a sleep: in the morning {they are} like grass {which} groweth up. {groweth...: or, is changed}
{As for} man, his days {are} as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
For all flesh {is} as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: {For: or, For that}
His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.
But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
Behold, I {am} according to thy wish in God's stead: I also am formed out of the clay. {wish: Heb. mouth} {formed: Heb. cut}
For we know that if our earthly house of {this} tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
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. {of the dust...: Heb. dust of the ground}
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which {am but} dust and ashes:
For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.
And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
Your remembrances {are} like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house which I have built!
When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man {is} vanity. Selah. {his...: Heb. that which is to be desired in him to melt away}
How much more abominable and filthy {is} man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
How much less man, {that is} a worm? and the son of man, {which is} a worm?
How much less shall I answer him, {and} choose out my words {to reason} with him?
Man is like to vanity: his days {are} as a shadow that passeth away.