Job 4:17-21

Easy-to-Read Version

¹⁷ ‘A person cannot be more right than God.
    People cannot be more pure than their Maker.
¹⁸ Look, God cannot even trust his heavenly servants.
    He sees faults even in his angels.
¹⁹ So surely people are worse!
    They live in houses of clay^[a] built on dust.
    They can be crushed as easily as a moth!
²⁰ From dawn to sunset people are destroyed.
    They die—gone forever—and no one even notices.
²¹ The ropes of their tent are pulled up,
    and they die before gaining wisdom.’