Psalms 103:14

⁷and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

⁹Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?

³⁸But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn’t destroy them. Yes, many times he turned his anger away, and didn’t stir up all his wrath. ³⁹He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn’t come again.

⁴⁷Remember how short my time is, for what vanity you have created all the children of men!

¹⁹You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”

⁵My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh. ⁶My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope. ⁷Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye will no more see good.

²¹Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now will I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I will not be.”

¹⁶You turn things upside down! Should the potter be thought to be like clay, that the thing made should say about him who made it, “He didn’t make me;” or the thing formed say of him who formed it, “He has no understanding”?

²⁵Will you harass a driven leaf? Will you pursue the dry stubble?