Quotes about Fragility
how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!
— Job 4:19
While the shoots are still uncut, they dry up quicker than grass.
— Job 8:12
His confidence is fragile; his security is in a spider’s web.
— Job 8:14
He leans on his web, but it gives way; he holds fast, but it does not endure.
— Job 8:15
He leans on his web, but it gives way; he holds fast, but it does not endure.
— Job 8:15
Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust?
— Job 10:9
Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.
— Job 13:12
Would You frighten a windblown leaf? Would You chase after dry chaff?
— Job 13:25
So man wastes away like something rotten, like a moth-eaten garment.
— Job 13:28
But as a mountain erodes and crumbles and a rock is dislodged from its place,
— Job 14:18
The house he built is like a moth’s cocoon, like a hut set up by a watchman.
— Job 27:18
She forgets that a foot may crush them, or a wild animal may trample them.
— Job 39:15