Houses Of Clay

Job 4:18-19 – If God places no trust in his servants, if he charges his angels with error, how much more those who live in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who are crushed more readily than a moth!

Job 21:22 – “Can anyone teach knowledge to God, since he judges even the highest?

2 Corinthians 4:7 – But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us.

Genesis 2:7 – Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

Job 7:17-18 – “What is mankind that you make so much of them, that you give them so much attention, that you examine them every morning and test them every moment?

Isaiah 41:14 – Do not be afraid, you worm Jacob, little Israel, do not fear, for I myself will help you,” declares the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.

Application:

• ·         “Can anyone teach…God…?”, on the contrary, God is the one who does the teaching.
• ·         Treasures were concealed in clay jars, which had little value or beauty and did not attract attention to themselves and their contents.
• ·         The Hebrew for “formed” commonly referred to the work of a potter, who fashions vessels from clay.
• ·         Humanity is created in God’s image to have dominion over the world.
• ·         Job’s words imply that God’s only interest in people is to scrutinize them unmercifully and take quick offense at their slightest fault.

All Scripture verses taken from NIV