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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Job 4:19 Catholic Bible: Do you think he will trust a creature of clay, a thing of dust that can be crushed like a moth? </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/job/4-19.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/job/4-19.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/job/4-19.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/job/1.htm">Job</a> > <a href="/gntd/job/4.htm">Chapter 4</a> > Verse 19</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../job/4-18.htm" title="Job 4:18">◄</a> Job 4:19 <a href="../job/4-20.htm" title="Job 4:20">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/job/4.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/job/4.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />Do you think he will trust a creature of clay, a thing of dust that can be crushed like a moth? <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/job/4.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />how much more those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/job/4.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Humans are formed from clay and are fragile as moths, so what chance do you have? <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/job/4.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />How much more with those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed more easily than a moth! <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/job/4.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />How much more shall they that dwell in houses of clay, who have an earthly foundation, be consumed as with the moth?<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">How much more shall they that dwell in houses of clay, who have an earthly foundation, be consumed as with the moth?</p><p class="hdg">dwell.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../job/10-9.htm">Job 10:9</a> Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay, and thou wilt bring me into dust</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../job/13-12.htm">Job 13:12</a> Your remembrance shall be compared to ashes, and your necks shall be brought to clay.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../job/33-6.htm">Job 33:6</a> Behold God hath made me as well as thee, and of the same clay I also was formed.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../genesis/2-7.htm">Genesis 2:7</a> And the Lord God formed man of the slime of the earth: and breathed into his face the breath of life, and man became a living soul.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../genesis/3-19.htm">Genesis 3:19</a> In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return to the earth out of which thou wast taken: for dust thou art, and into dust thou shalt return.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../genesis/18-27.htm">Genesis 18:27</a> And Abraham answered, and said: Seeing I have once begun, I will speak to my Lord, whereas I am dust and ashes.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ecclesiastes/12-7.htm">Ecclesiastes 12:7</a> And the dust return into its earth, from whence it was, and the spirit return to God, who gave it.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_corinthians/4-7.htm">2 Corinthians 4:7</a> But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency may be of the power of God and not of us.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_corinthians/5-1.htm">2 Corinthians 5:1</a> For we know, if our earthly house of this habitation be dissolved, that we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in heaven.</p><p class="hdg">crushed.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../job/13-28.htm">Job 13:28</a> Who am to be consumed as rottenness, and as a garment that is motheaten.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../job/14-2.htm">Job 14:2</a> Who cometh forth like a flower, and is destroyed, and fleeth as a shadow, and never continueth in the same state.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/39-11.htm">Psalm 39:11</a> Thou hast corrected man for iniquity. And thou hast made his soul to waste away like a spider: surely in vain is any man disquieted.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/90-5.htm">Psalm 90:5-7</a> Things that are counted nothing, shall their years be. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/103-15.htm">Psalm 103:15,16</a> Man's days are as grass, as the flower of the field so shall he flourish. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/146-4.htm">Psalm 146:4</a> His spirit shall go forth, and he shall return into his earth: in that day all their thoughts shall perish.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_peter/1-24.htm">1 Peter 1:24</a> For all flesh is as grass and all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass is withered and the flower thereof is fallen away.</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/job/4.htm">Eliphaz: The Innocent Prosper</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">18</span>Behold, they that serve him are not steadfast, and in his angels he found wickedness: <span class="reftext">19</span><span class="highl">How much more shall they that dwell in houses of clay, who have an earthly foundation, be consumed as with the moth?</span><span class="reftext">20</span>From morning till evening they shall be cut down: and because no one understandeth, they shall perish for ever.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../2_corinthians/4-7.htm">2 Corinthians 4:7</a></span><br />But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency may be of the power of God and not of us.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../2_corinthians/5-1.htm">2 Corinthians 5:1</a></span><br />For we know, if our earthly house of this habitation be dissolved, that we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in heaven.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../genesis/2-7.htm">Genesis 2:7</a></span><br />And the Lord God formed man of the slime of the earth: and breathed into his face the breath of life, and man became a living soul.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../genesis/3-19.htm">Genesis 3:19</a></span><br />In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return to the earth out of which thou wast taken: for dust thou art, and into dust thou shalt return.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../job/10-9.htm">Job 10:9</a></span><br />Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay, and thou wilt bring me into dust<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../job/22-16.htm">Job 22:16</a></span><br />Who were taken away before their time, and a flood hath overthrown their foundation.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../job/33-6.htm">Job 33:6</a></span><br />Behold God hath made me as well as thee, and of the same clay I also was formed.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/ezra/5-16.htm">Bases</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/4-17.htm">Clay</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/34-7.htm">Crushed</a> <a href="/job/2-12.htm">Dust</a> <a href="/job/3-5.htm">Dwell</a> <a href="/job/3-14.htm">Earth</a> <a href="/ezra/5-16.htm">Foundation</a> <a href="/ezra/6-3.htm">Foundations</a> <a href="/job/3-15.htm">Houses</a> <a 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