Job 4:19, 15:15, Jude 6 | JFB | e4.org | 19. houses of clay — ( ). Houses made of sun-dried clay bricks are common in the East; they are easily washed away ( ). Man's foundation is this dust ( ). before the moth —rather, "as before the moth," which devours a garment ( ). Man, who cannot, in a physical point of view, stand before the very moth, surely cannot, in a moral, stand before God.

‏ Job 4:19

19. houses of clay— (2Co 5:1). Houses made of sun-dried clay bricks are common in the East; they are easily washed away (Mt 7:27). Man's foundation is this dust (Ge 3:19).

before the moth—rather, "as before the moth," which devours a garment (Job 13:28; Ps 39:11; Isa 50:9). Man, who cannot, in a physical point of view, stand before the very moth, surely cannot, in a moral, stand before God.

‏ Job 15:15

15. Repeated from Job 4:18; "servants" there are "saints" here; namely, holy angels.

heavens—literally, or else answering to "angels" (see on Job 4:18, and Job 25:5).

‏ Jude 6

6. "Love is the fulfilling of the law" (Ro 13:10), and the fulfilling of the law is the sure test of love.

This is the commandment—Greek, "The commandment is this," namely, love, in which all God's other commandments are summed up.