Quotes about Fragility
death is literally all around us. We cannot run and we cannot hide and we have no ability to defeat it. Death lives at our address, and there is no escaping.
— Paul David Tripp
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