Job 4:19
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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)
Job 10:9
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9 Remember that you fashioned me like clay,
and will you turn me to dust again?(A)
Genesis 2:7
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7 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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- 2.7 In Heb the word for ground resembles the word for man
Job 33:6
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6 See, before God I am as you are;
I, too, was formed from a piece of clay.
Genesis 3:19
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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)
2 Corinthians 5:1
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5 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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2 Corinthians 4:7
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7 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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Job 13:28
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28 One wastes away like a rotten thing,
like a garment that is moth-eaten.(A)
Job 13:12
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12 Your maxims are proverbs of ashes;
your defenses are defenses of clay.(A)
Genesis 18:27
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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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1 Peter 1:24
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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)
Ecclesiastes 12:7
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7 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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- 12.7 Or the spirit
Psalm 146:4
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4 When their breath departs, they return to the earth;
on that very day their plans perish.(A)
Psalm 103:15-16
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15 As for mortals, their days are like grass;
they flourish like a flower of the field;(A)
16 for the wind passes over it, and it is gone,
and its place knows it no more.
Psalm 90:5-7
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5 You sweep them away; they are like a dream,
like grass that is renewed in the morning;(A)
6 in the morning it flourishes and is renewed;
in the evening it fades and withers.(B)
7 For we are consumed by your anger;
by your wrath we are overwhelmed.
Psalm 39:11
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11 “You chastise mortals
in punishment for sin,
consuming like a moth what is dear to them;
surely everyone is a mere breath. Selah(A)
Job 22:16
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16 They were snatched away before their time;
their foundation was washed away by a flood.(A)
Job 14:2
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2 comes up like a flower and withers,
flees like a shadow and does not last.(A)
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