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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.”

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19 By the sweat of your brow(A)
    you will eat your food(B)
until you return to the ground,
    since from it you were taken;
for dust you are
    and to dust you will return.”(C)

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For then the dust will return to the earth, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.

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and the dust returns(A) to the ground it came from,
    and the spirit returns to God(B) who gave it.(C)

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29 But if you turn away from them, they panic.
    When you take away their breath,
    they die and turn again to dust.

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29 When you hide your face,(A)
    they are terrified;
when you take away their breath,
    they die and return to the dust.(B)

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15 all life would cease,
    and humanity would turn again to dust.

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15 all humanity would perish(A) together
    and mankind would return to the dust.(B)

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You turn people back to dust, saying,
    “Return to dust, you mortals!”

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You turn people back to dust,
    saying, “Return to dust, you mortals.”(A)

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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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Then the Lord God formed(A) a man[a](B) from the dust(C) of the ground(D) and breathed into his nostrils the breath(E) of life,(F) and the man became a living being.(G)

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 2:7 The Hebrew for man (adam) sounds like and may be related to the Hebrew for ground (adamah); it is also the name Adam (see verse 20).

20 Both go to the same place—they came from dust and they return to dust.

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20 All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return.(A)

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10 Even while we were with you, we gave you this command: “Those unwilling to work will not get to eat.”

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10 For even when we were with you,(A) we gave you this rule: “The one who is unwilling to work(B) shall not eat.”

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28 If you are a thief, quit stealing. Instead, use your hands for good hard work, and then give generously to others in need.

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28 Anyone who has been stealing must steal no longer, but must work,(A) doing something useful with their own hands,(B) that they may have something to share with those in need.(C)

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21 So you see, just as death came into the world through a man, now the resurrection from the dead has begun through another man. 22 Just as everyone dies because we all belong to Adam, everyone who belongs to Christ will be given new life.

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21 For since death came through a man,(A) the resurrection of the dead(B) comes also through a man. 22 For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.(C)

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Many of those whose bodies lie dead and buried will rise up, some to everlasting life and some to shame and everlasting disgrace.

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Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake:(A) some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt.(B)

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15 We all come to the end of our lives as naked and empty-handed as on the day we were born. We can’t take our riches with us.

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15 Everyone comes naked from their mother’s womb,
    and as everyone comes, so they depart.(A)
They take nothing from their toil(B)
    that they can carry in their hands.(C)

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What do people get for all their hard work under the sun?

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What do people gain from all their labors
    at which they toil under the sun?(A)

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