Job 4:19
New Living Translation
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
New Living Translation
9 Remember that you made me from dust—
will you turn me back to dust so soon?
Job 10:9
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Genesis 2:7
New Living Translation
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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Genesis 2:7
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7 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)
Footnotes
- 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).
Job 33:6
New Living Translation
6 Look, you and I both belong to God.
I, too, was formed from clay.
Job 33:6
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Genesis 3:19
New Living Translation
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.”
Genesis 3:19
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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.
2 Corinthians 4:7
New International Version
7 But we have this treasure in jars of clay(A) to show that this all-surpassing power is from God(B) and not from us.
Psalm 39:11
New Living Translation
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
New Living Translation
28 I waste away like rotting wood,
like a moth-eaten coat.
Job 13:28
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Job 13:12
New Living Translation
12 Your platitudes are as valuable as ashes.
Your defense is as fragile as a clay pot.
Job 13:12
New International Version
12 Your maxims are proverbs of ashes;
your defenses are defenses of clay.(A)
Genesis 18:27
New Living Translation
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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Genesis 18:27
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27 Then Abraham spoke up again: “Now that I have been so bold as to speak to the Lord, though I am nothing but dust and ashes,(A)
1 Peter 1:24
New Living Translation
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.
1 Peter 1:24
New International Version
24 For,
“All people are like grass,
and all their glory is like the flowers of the field;
the grass withers and the flowers fall,
2 Corinthians 5:1
New Living Translation
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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2 Corinthians 5:1
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Awaiting the New Body
5 For we know that if the earthly(A) tent(B) we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.
Ecclesiastes 12:7
New Living Translation
7 For then the dust will return to the earth, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.
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Ecclesiastes 12:7
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