Job 4:19 - Exposition

How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay! rather, hew muck more cloth he not put trust in them that inhabit houses of clay ! i.e. "earthly bodies," bodies made out of the dust of the ground ( Genesis 2:7 ; setup, Job 33:6 ). Whose foundation is in the dust ; i.e. " whose origin was the dust of the ground," which were formed from it and must return to it, according to the words of Genesis 3:19 , "Dust thou art, and unto dust thou must return." Which are crushed before the moth . This is somewhat obscure. It may mean, "which are so fragile that a moth, a fly, or other weak creature may destroy them," or "which are crushed with the same ease with which a moth is crushed and destroyed."