¹⁴ For he has knowledge of our feeble frame; he sees that we are only 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.

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

³⁸ But he, being full of pity, has forgiveness for sin, and does not put an end to man: frequently turning back his wrath, and not being violently angry.

³⁹ So he kept in mind that they were only flesh; a breath which is quickly gone, and will not come again.

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

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

⁵ My flesh is covered with worms and dust; my skin gets hard and then is cracked again.

⁶ My days go quicker than the cloth-worker's thread, and come to an end without hope.

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

²¹ And why do you not take away my sin, and let my wrongdoing be ended? for now I go down to the dust, and you will be searching for me with care, but I will be gone.

²⁵ Will you be hard on a leaf in flight before the wind? will you make a dry stem go more quickly on its way?

¹⁶ You are turning things upside down! Is the wet earth the same to you as the one who is forming it? will the thing made say of him who made it, He made me not: or the thing formed say of him who gave it form, He has no knowledge?