Add parallel Print Page Options

19 how much more those who dwell in houses of clay,
    whose foundation is in the dust,
    who are crushed before the moth.
20 Between morning and evening they are destroyed;
    they perish for ever without any regarding it.
21 If their tent-cord is plucked up within them,
    do they not die, and that without wisdom?’

Read full chapter

19 how much more those who live in houses of clay,(A)
    whose foundations(B) are in the dust,(C)
    who are crushed(D) more readily than a moth!(E)
20 Between dawn and dusk they are broken to pieces;
    unnoticed, they perish forever.(F)
21 Are not the cords of their tent pulled up,(G)
    so that they die(H) without wisdom?’(I)

Read full chapter