Job 4:19, 8:14 | JFB | STEP | 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 ( ; ; ). Man, who cannot, in a physical point of view, stand before the very moth, surely cannot, in a moral, stand before God.

‏ Job 4:19

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

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

‏ Job 8:14

14. cut off--so Gesenius; or, to accord with the metaphor of the spider's "house," "The confidence (on which he builds) shall be laid in ruins" (Is 59:5, 6).