Job 4:19
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19 how much less will he trust people made of clay!
They are made of dust, crushed as easily as a moth.
Job 10:9
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9 Remember that you made me from dust—
will you turn me back to dust so soon?
Genesis 2:7
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7 Then the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground. He breathed the breath of life into the man’s nostrils, and the man became a living person.
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Job 33:6
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6 Look, you and I both belong to God.
I, too, was formed from clay.
Genesis 3:19
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19 By the sweat of your brow
will you have food to eat
until you return to the ground
from which you were made.
For you were made from dust,
and to dust you will return.”
2 Corinthians 4:7
New Living Translation
7 We now have this light shining in our hearts, but we ourselves are like fragile clay jars containing this great treasure.[a] This makes it clear that our great power is from God, not from ourselves.
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- 4:7 Greek We now have this treasure in clay jars.
Psalm 39:11
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11 When you discipline us for our sins,
you consume like a moth what is precious to us.
Each of us is but a breath. Interlude
Job 13:28
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28 I waste away like rotting wood,
like a moth-eaten coat.
Job 13:12
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12 Your platitudes are as valuable as ashes.
Your defense is as fragile as a clay pot.
Genesis 18:27
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27 Then Abraham spoke again. “Since I have begun, let me speak further to my Lord, even though I am but dust and ashes.
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1 Peter 1:24
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24 As the Scriptures say,
“People are like grass;
their beauty is like a flower in the field.
The grass withers and the flower fades.
2 Corinthians 5:1
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New Bodies
5 For we know that when this earthly tent we live in is taken down (that is, when we die and leave this earthly body), we will have a house in heaven, an eternal body made for us by God himself and not by human hands.
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Ecclesiastes 12:7
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7 For then the dust will return to the earth, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.
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Psalm 146:4
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4 When they breathe their last, they return to the earth,
and all their plans die with them.
Psalm 103:15-16
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15 Our days on earth are like grass;
like wildflowers, we bloom and die.
16 The wind blows, and we are gone—
as though we had never been here.
Psalm 90:5-7
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5 You sweep people away like dreams that disappear.
They are like grass that springs up in the morning.
6 In the morning it blooms and flourishes,
but by evening it is dry and withered.
7 We wither beneath your anger;
we are overwhelmed by your fury.
Job 22:16
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16 They were snatched away in the prime of life,
the foundations of their lives washed away.
Job 14:2
New Living Translation
2 We blossom like a flower and then wither.
Like a passing shadow, we quickly disappear.
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