⁸ Yet you, Lord, are our Father.^(A)
    We are the clay, you are the potter;^(B)
    we are all the work of your hand.^(C)

⁷ and the dust returns^(A) to the ground it came from,
    and the spirit returns to God^(B) who gave it.^(C)

⁴ The Spirit^(A) of God has made me;^(B)
    the breath of the Almighty^(C) gives me life.^(D)

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)

¹⁴ for he knows how we are formed,^(A)
    he remembers that we are dust.^(B)

³ as long as I have life within me,
    the breath of God^(A) in my nostrils,