Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Job 4:19

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19. houses of clay — ( :- ). Houses made of sun-dried clay bricks are common in the East; they are easily washed away ( :- ). Man's foundation is this dust ( :- ). before the moth —rather, "as before the moth," which devours a garment ( Job 13:28 ; Psalms 39:11 ; Isaiah 50:9 ). Man, who cannot, in a physical point of view, stand before the very moth, surely cannot, in a moral, stand before God. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-20" class="com-number"

Pericope (part_of)

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절 (explains)

bible-text/job-4-19

Source

• source-manifest/jfb — Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (PD)
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