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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.

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19 how much more those who live in houses of clay,(A)
    whose foundations(B) are in the dust,(C)
    who are crushed(D) more readily than a moth!(E)

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Remember that you made me from dust—
    will you turn me back to dust so soon?

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Remember that you molded me like clay.(A)
    Will you now turn me to dust again?(B)

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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).

Look, you and I both belong to God.
    I, too, was formed from clay.

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I am the same as you in God’s sight;(A)
    I too am a piece of clay.(B)

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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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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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Footnotes

  1. 4:7 Greek We now have this treasure in clay jars.

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.

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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

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11 When you rebuke(A) and discipline(B) anyone for their sin,
    you consume(C) their wealth like a moth(D)
    surely everyone is but a breath.(E)

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28 I waste away like rotting wood,
    like a moth-eaten coat.

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28 “So man wastes away like something rotten,
    like a garment(A) eaten by moths.(B)

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12 Your platitudes are as valuable as ashes.
    Your defense is as fragile as a clay pot.

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12 Your maxims are proverbs of ashes;
    your defenses are defenses of clay.(A)

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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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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)

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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.

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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,

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New Bodies

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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Awaiting the New Body

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.

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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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