Job 33:6

Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in Yahweh’s house forever.

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

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

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.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.

for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

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.

but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”

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

In my Father’s house are many homes. If it weren’t so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.

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.

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

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

When the king of Israel had read the letter, he tore his clothes, and said, “Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends to me to heal a man of his leprosy? But please consider and see how he seeks a quarrel against me.”

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

(for the length of my life is still in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils);

Man goes out to his work, to his labor until the evening.

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

“The lord said to the servant, ‘Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.

Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

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?”

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

Working together, we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain,

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: “If anyone is not willing to work, don’t let him eat.”

For Adam was formed first, then Eve.

Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

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

All the days that Adam lived were nine hundred thirty years, then he died.

Sarai said to Abram, “See now, Yahweh has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my servant. It may be that I will obtain children by her.” Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

but to Hannah he gave a double portion, for he loved Hannah, but Yahweh had shut up her womb.

all flesh would perish together, and man would turn again to dust.

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

You turn man to destruction, saying, “Return, you children of men.”

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.

He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.

I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the sky. It is a heavy burden that God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.

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

Produce your cause,” says Yahweh. “Bring out your strong reasons!” says the King of Jacob.

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.

For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Yahweh of Armies.

But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.

Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are revealed to God, and I hope that we are revealed also in your consciences.

But Christ having come as a high priest of the coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation,

For Christ hasn’t entered into holy places made with hands, which are representations of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;

Beloved, now we are children of God. It is not yet revealed what we will be; but we know that when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

Abraham answered, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, although I am dust and ashes.

If he is pleased to contend with him, he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.

Then call, and I will answer, or let me speak, and you answer me.

though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

Allow me, and I also will speak; After I have spoken, mock on.

All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.

“House of Israel, can’t I do with you as this potter?” says Yahweh. “Behold, as the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel.

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:

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

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?

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.

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.”

Jacob’s anger burned against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in God’s place, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”

He will be your spokesman to the people. It will happen that he will be to you a mouth, and you will be to him as God.

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

“Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God.

Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes. Your defenses are defenses of clay.

In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress will overtake him. The hand of everyone who is in misery will come on him.

oh that I had one to hear me! Behold, here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me! Let the accuser write my indictment!

“Bear with me a little, and I will show you; for I still have something to say on God’s behalf.

For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.