18 If God puts no trust in His servants, and He charges His angels with error, 19 how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth! 20 They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; unnoticed, they perish forever.
Job 4:18–20
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1 Clement 39:4–6
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Job 15:14–16
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Baruch 6:45–47
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Job 21:17–19
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Job 4:8–10
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Job 22:15–17
15 Will you stay on the ancient path that wicked men have trod? 16 They were snatched away before their time, and their foundations were swept away by a flood. 17 They said to God, ‘Depart from us. What can the Almighty do to us?’
Job 14:18–20
18 But as a mountain erodes and crumbles and a rock is dislodged from its place, 19 as water wears away the stones and torrents wash away the soil, so You destroy a man’s hope. 20 You forever overpower him, and he passes on; You change his countenance and send him away.
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