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; Ps 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.

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" (Isa 59:5, 6).