how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like the moth.
Remember that you have made me like clay; and will you return me to the dust?
then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.
Behold, I am toward God as you are; I too was pinched off from a piece of clay.
By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us.
When you discipline a man with rebukes for sin, you consume like a moth what is dear to him; surely all mankind is a mere breath! Selah
Man wastes away like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.
Abraham answered and said, “Behold, I have undertaken to speak to the Lord, I who am but dust and ashes.
for “All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls,
For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
When his breath departs, he returns to the earth; on that very day his plans perish.
As for man, his days are like grass; he flourishes like a flower of the field; for the wind passes over it, and it is gone, and its place knows it no more.
You sweep them away as with a flood; they are like a dream, like grass that is renewed in the morning: in the morning it flourishes and is renewed; in the evening it fades and withers. For we are brought to an end by your anger; by your wrath we are dismayed.
They were snatched away before their time; their foundation was washed away.
He comes out like a flower and withers; he flees like a shadow and continues not.
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