Job 4

Treated in 6 passages across the library.

The verses these writers stop at

  • 4:18 Even in his servants he puts no trust, and he charges his angels with error, 4
  • 4:19 how much more those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth! 2
  • 4:15 Then a spirit glided past my face; the hair on my body stood on end. 1
  • 4:17 Can a mortal be righteous before God? Can anyone be pure before their Maker? 1
  • 4:20 Between morning and evening they are shattered; unnoticed, they perish forever. 1

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Where it is preached

  1. Communion with God · John Owen

    Of communion with Christ in purchased grace cites Job iv. 18

    …was inconceivably above that of the angels. He who “chargeth his angels with folly,” Job iv. 18; “who putteth no trust in his saints; and in whose sight the heavens” (or their…

  2. The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit · R. A. Torrey

    The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit as Revealed in His Names cites Job 4:15

    …meant when he said, “A spirit glided past my face; the hair of my flesh stood up.” (Job 4:15). The moment was overwhelming, but as glorious as it was awful. These are but two…

  3. Practical Religion · J. C. Ryle

    Sickness cites Job iv. 19

    …are all poor worms, that we "dwell in houses of clay," and are "crushed before the moth" (Job iv. 19), and that kings and subjects, masters and servants, rich and poor, are all dying…

  4. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 3, Chapter 17 — The Promises of the Law and the Gospel Reconciled cites Job 4:18

    …eye before which even the heavens are not clean, and angels are chargeable with folly? (Job 4:18). Thus he will be forced to confess that no good work exists that is not defiled, both by…

  5. Old Paths · J. C. Ryle

    Forgiveness cites Job iv. 18

    …far above ourselves; but we are told in Scripture, “He charged His angels with folly.” (Job iv. 18.) We admire the moon and stars as glorious and splendid bodies; but we read, “Behold even…

  6. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 3, Chapter 12 — Necessity of Contemplating the Judgment-seat of God, in Order to Be Seriously Convinced of the Doctrine of Gratuitous Justification cites Job 4:17-20

    …dust, which are crushed before the moth? They are destroyed from morning to evening,” (Job 4:17-20). Again, “Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in…