Job 4:19–21

⁹Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?

⁷And 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.

¹⁹In 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.

⁶Behold, I am according to thy wish in God’s stead: I also am formed out of the clay.

⁷But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.

¹FOR 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.

²⁷And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes:

¹²Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.

²⁸And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.

¹¹When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.

²⁴For 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:

⁷Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

²He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

¹⁶Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:

¹⁵As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.

¹⁶For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.

⁵Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.

⁶In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.

⁷For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.

⁴His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.

⁷Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?

⁶And nation was destroyed of nation, and city of city: for God did vex them with all adversity.

²⁰Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years, and departed without being desired. Howbeit they buried him in the city of David, but not in the sepulchres of the kings.

¹²Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd’s tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

¹³I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

¹⁴If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.

²He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

²⁰Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.

²²When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.

¹⁷His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.

⁷The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.

³⁶Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.

¹³O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.

⁵Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.

⁶In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.

⁷When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:

¹²But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.

²²They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.

²²And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham’s bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;

²³And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.

¹¹When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.

¹⁶They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;

²²Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?

¹¹For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

²¹Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.

²⁰But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?

³Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.

⁴His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.

⁵Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.

¹⁴Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.

²⁰Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish.