¹⁵ All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust.

¹⁹ In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

⁷ Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

¹⁶ For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.

⁴ Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.

³ Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.

⁴ For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

⁵ Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.

⁶ In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.

⁷ For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.

⁸ Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.

⁹ For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.

¹⁰ The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

²³ For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

⁹ Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?

²² This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.