Key Verse Spotlight
Job 4:19 — Meaning and Application
King James Version
“How 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
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly: {and his...: or, nor in his angels, in whom he put light}
How much less {in} them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation {is} in the dust, {which} are crushed before the moth?
They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding {it}. {destroyed: Heb. beaten in pieces}
Doth not their excellency {which is} in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.
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