Job 27:3

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

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

But now, Yahweh, you are our Father. We are the clay and you our potter. We all are the work of your hand.

You 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.”

For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust.

You hide your face; they are troubled. You take away their breath; they die and return to the dust.

You send out your Spirit and they are created. You renew the face of the ground.

Don’t put your trust in princes, in a son of man in whom there is no help.

Yahweh, your Redeemer, and he who formed you from the womb says: “I am Yahweh, who makes all things; who alone stretches out the heavens; who spreads out the earth by myself;

For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

“I, even I, am he who comforts you. Who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who will be made as grass?

Yahweh says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man, relies on strength of flesh, and whose heart departs from Yahweh.

“Ah Lord Yahweh! Behold, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard for you.

‘For in him we live, move, and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’

The first man is of the earth, made of dust. The second man is the Lord from heaven.

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

All on the dry land, in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died.

How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!

The eye of him who sees me will see me no more. Your eyes will be on me, but I will not be.

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

“Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.

The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the mind?

For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

I have made the earth, and created man on it. I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens. I have commanded all their army.

For Yahweh who created the heavens, the God who formed the earth and made it, who established it and didn’t create it a waste, who formed it to be inhabited says: “I am Yahweh. There is no other.

The Lord Yahweh says to these bones: “Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you will live.

but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines, have drunk wine from them. You have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which don’t see, or hear, or know; and you have not glorified the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways.

A revelation, Yahweh’s word concerning Israel. Yahweh, who stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him says:

But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”

We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown, yet a wisdom not of this world nor of the rulers of this world who are coming to nothing.

For Adam was formed first, then Eve.

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.

Therefore Yahweh God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.

Pharaoh said to his servants, “Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom is the Spirit of God?”

They fell on their faces, and said, “God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?”

to love Yahweh your God, to obey his voice, and to cling to him; for he is your life, and the length of your days, that you may dwell in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

behold, I have done according to your word. Behold, I have given you a wise and understanding heart; so that there has been no one like you before you, and after you none will arise like you.

God gave Solomon abundant wisdom and understanding, and very great understanding, even as the sand that is on the seashore.

Yours, Yahweh, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty! For all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, Yahweh, and you are exalted as head above all.

He will return no more to his house, neither will his place know him any more.

in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?

He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the earth on nothing.

who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’

what is man, that you think of him? What is the son of man, that you care for him?

For all the gods of the peoples are idols, but Yahweh made the heavens.

Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in,

‘I have made the earth, the men, and the animals that are on the surface of the earth by my great power and by my outstretched arm. I give it to whom it seems right to me.

The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of Yahweh, was taken in their pits; of whom we said, under his shadow we will live among the nations.

Now as for these four youths, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom; and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.

He changes the times and the seasons. He removes kings, and sets up kings. He gives wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to those who have understanding.

But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

For to one is given through the Spirit the word of wisdom, and to another the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit;

Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

Give us help against the enemy, for the help of man is vain.

Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for of what account is he?

Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought godly offspring. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

When he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit!

He isn’t served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath, and all things.

Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

The eye which saw him will see him no more, neither will his place see him any more.

But there is a spirit in man, and the Spirit of the Almighty gives them understanding.

God Yahweh, he who created the heavens and stretched them out, he who spread out the earth and that which comes out of it, he who gives breath to its people and spirit to those who walk in it, says:

His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.