¹⁵ All flesh would come to an end together, and man would go back to the dust.

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

¹⁶ For I will not give punishment for ever, or be angry without end: for from me breath goes out; and I it was who made the souls.

²² It is all the same to me; so I say, He puts an end to the sinner and to him who has done no wrong together.

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

²³ For I am certain that you will send me back to death, and to the meeting-place ordered for all living.

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

⁴ For to you a thousand years are no more than yesterday when it is past, and like a watch in the night.

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⁶ In the morning it is green; in the evening it is cut down, and becomes dry.

⁷ We are burned up by the heat of your passion, and troubled by your wrath.

⁸ You have put our evil doings before you, our secret sins in the light of your face.

⁹ For all our days have gone by in your wrath; our years come to an end like a breath.

¹⁰ The measure of our life is seventy years; and if through strength it may be eighty years, its pride is only trouble and sorrow, for it comes to an end and we are quickly gone.

⁴ My passion is over: if the thorns were fighting against me, I would make an attack on them, and they would be burned up together.