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19 how much more those who live in houses of clay,
    whose foundation is in the dust,
    who are crushed like a moth.(A)

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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 fashioned me like clay,
    and will you turn me to dust again?(A)

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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 man from the dust of the ground[a] and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 2.7 In Heb the word for ground resembles the word for man

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).

See, before God I am as you are;
    I, too, was formed from a piece of 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 face
    you shall eat bread
until you return to the ground,
    for out of it you were taken;
you are dust,
    and to dust you shall return.”(A)

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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 we know that, if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.(A)

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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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But we have this treasure in clay jars, so that it may be made clear that this extraordinary power belongs to God and does not come from us.(A)

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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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28 One wastes away like a rotten thing,
    like a garment that is moth-eaten.(A)

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

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

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27 Abraham answered, “Let me take it upon myself to speak to my lord, I who am but dust and ashes.(A)

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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 For

“All flesh is like grass
    and all its glory like the flower of grass.
The grass withers,
    and the flower falls,(A)

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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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and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the breath[a] returns to God who gave it.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 12.7 Or the spirit

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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When their breath departs, they return to the earth;
    on that very day their plans perish.(A)

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When their spirit departs, they return to the ground;(A)
    on that very day their plans come to nothing.(B)

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