⁶ See, I am the same as you are in the eyes of God; I was cut off from the same bit of wet earth.

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

²⁰ So we are the representatives of Christ, as if God was making a request to you through us: we make our request to you, in the name of Christ, be at peace with God.

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.

³⁵ If only God would give ear to me, and the Ruler of all would give me an answer! or if what he has against me had been put in writing!

³ If only I had knowledge of where he might be seen, so that I might come even to his seat!

⁴ I would put my cause in order before him, and my mouth would be full of arguments.

²² Even when his wealth is great, he is full of care, for the hand of everyone who is in trouble is turned against him.

¹² Your wise sayings are only dust, and your strong places are only earth.

³ But I would have talk with the Ruler of all, and my desire is to have an argument with God.

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

³² For he is not a man as I am, that I might give him an answer, that we might come together before a judge.

³³ There is no one to give a decision between us, who might have control over us.

³⁴ Let him take away his rod from me and not send his fear on me:

³⁵ Then I would say what is in my mind without fear of him; for there is no cause of fear in myself.

¹⁶ And he will do the talking for you to the people: he will be to you as a mouth and you will be to him as God.

² But Jacob was angry with Rachel, and said, Am I in the place of God, who has kept your body from having fruit?

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.

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.