Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Job 4:19

Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Job 4:19 - 4:19

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Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Job 4:19 - 4:19

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This Chapter Verse Commentaries:

4:1 - 4:1
4:2 - 4:2
4:3 - 4:3
4:5 - 4:5
4:6 - 4:6
4:8 - 4:8
4:9 - 4:9
4:10 - 4:10
4:12 - 4:12
4:13 - 4:13
4:16 - 4:16
4:17 - 4:17
4:18 - 4:18
4:19 - 4:19
4:20 - 4:20
4:21 - 4:21

houses of clay - (2Co 5:1). Houses made of sun-dried clay bricks are common in the East; they are easily washed away (Mat 7:27). Man’s foundation is this dust (Gen 3:19).

before the moth - rather, “as before the moth,” which devours a garment (Job 13:28; Psa 39:11; Isa 50:9). Man, who cannot, in a physical point of view, stand before the very moth, surely cannot, in a moral, stand before God.