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

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.

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 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 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.

⁷ But we have this wealth in vessels of earth, so that it may be seen that the power comes not from us but from God;

²⁸ Though a man comes to nothing like a bit of dead wood, or like a robe which has become food for the worm.

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

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

²⁴ For it is said, All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the grass. The grass becomes dry and the flower dead:

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

⁴ Man's breath goes out, he is turned back again to dust; in that day all his purposes come to an end.

¹⁵ As for man, his days are as grass: his beautiful growth is like the flower of the field.

¹⁶ The wind goes over it and it is gone; and its place sees it no longer.

⁵ ...

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.

¹¹ By the weight of your wrath against man's sin, the glory of his form is wasted away; truly every man is but a breath. (Selah.)

¹⁶ Who were violently taken away before their time, who were overcome by the rush of waters:

² He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again.