How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
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Gill's Exposition
They are destroyed from morning to evening,.... That is, those that dwell in houses of clay, before described; the meaning is, that they are always exposed to death, and liable to it every day they…
Barnes' Notes
How much less - (אף 'aph). This particle has the general sense of addition, accession, especially of something more important;” yea more, besides, even.” Gesenius. The meaning here is, “how much more…
Eliphaz, having undertaken to convince Job of the sin and folly of his discontent and impatience, here vouches a vision he had been favoured with, which he relates to Job for his conviction. What…
Cambridge Bible
houses of clay The verse refers to men, and their "houses of clay" are their bodies, which are of the dust, Gen 2:7; Gen 3:19; 2Co 5:1.
whose foundation Men's bodies being compared to houses are now…
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