²⁷ And Abraham answering said, Truly, I who am only dust, have undertaken to put my thoughts before the Lord:

⁵ Then I said, The curse is on me, and my fate is destruction; for I am a man of unclean lips, living among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of armies.

¹⁹ With the hard work of your hands you will get your bread till you go back to the earth from which you were taken: for dust you are and to the dust you will go back.

¹ And he made a story for them, the point of which was that men were to go on making prayer and not get tired;

⁷ And the Lord God made man from the dust of the earth, breathing into him the breath of life: and man became a living soul.

¹ For we are conscious that if this our tent of flesh is taken down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in heaven.

² For in this we are crying in weariness, greatly desiring to be clothed with our house from heaven:

⁴⁷ The first man is from the earth, and of the earth: the second man is from heaven.

⁴⁸ Those who are of the earth are like the man who was from the earth: and those who are of heaven are like the one from heaven.

⁸ But Simon, when he saw it, went down at the knees of Jesus and said, Go away from me, O Lord, for I am a sinner.

⁸ Be not very angry, O Lord, and do not keep our sins in mind for ever: give ear to our prayer, for we are all your people.

⁷ And the dust goes back to the earth as it was, and the spirit goes back to God who gave it.

³ Lord, what is man, that you keep him in mind? or the son of man that you take him into account?

⁴ What is man, that you keep him in mind? the son of man, that you take him into account?

⁶ For this cause I give witness that what I said is false, and in sorrow I take my seat in the dust.

⁷ And it came about, after he had said these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, I am very angry with you and your two friends, because you have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job has.

⁸ And now, take seven oxen and seven sheep, and go to my servant Job, and give a burned offering for yourselves, and my servant Job will make prayer for you, that I may not send punishment on you; because you have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job has.

¹⁹ Truly God has made me low, even to the earth, and I have become like dust.

¹⁹ How much more those living in houses of earth, whose bases are in the dust! They are crushed more quickly than an insect;

⁶ I said, O my God, shame keeps me from lifting up my face to you, my God: for our sins are increased higher than our heads and our evil-doing has come up to heaven.

³⁰ And he said, Let not the Lord be angry with me if I say, What if there are thirty there? And he said, I will not do it if there are thirty.

³¹ And he said, See now, I have undertaken to put my thoughts before the Lord: what if there are twenty there? And he said, I will have mercy because of the twenty.

³² And he said, O let not the Lord be angry and I will say only one word more: by chance there may be ten there. And he said, I will have mercy because of the ten.