⁹ O keep in mind that you made me out of earth; and will you send me back again to dust?

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.

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.

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.

⁶ O Israel, am I not able to do with you as this potter does? says the Lord. See, like earth in the potter's hand are you in my hands, O Israel.

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

²¹ Or has not the potter the right to make out of one part of his earth a vessel for honour, and out of another a vessel for shame?

⁹ Cursed is he who has an argument with his Maker, the pot which has an argument with the Potter! Will the wet earth say to him who is working with it, What are you doing, that your work has nothing by which it may be gripped?

⁴ Keep me in mind, O Lord, when you are good to your people; O let your salvation come to me;

³ You send man back to his dust; and say, Go back, you children of men.

⁴⁷ See how short my time is; why have you made all men for no purpose?

¹⁸ Give thought to my grief and my pain; and take away all my sins.

⁶ O Lord, keep in mind your pity and your mercies; for they have been from the earliest times.

⁷ Do not keep in mind my sins when I was young, or my wrongdoing: let your memory of me be full of mercy, O Lord, because of your righteousness.

¹⁵ My throat is dry like a broken vessel; my tongue is fixed to the roof of my mouth, and the dust of death is on my lips.

¹⁴ If I say to the earth, You are my father; and to the worm, My mother and my sister;

⁷ O, keep in mind that my life is wind: my eye will never again see good.