Job 4:19

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

Israel will be saved by Yahweh with an everlasting salvation. You will not be disappointed nor confounded to ages everlasting.

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

(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)

and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.

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

“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?

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.

But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised by the people.

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.

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

The voice of one saying, “Cry!” One said, “What shall I cry?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flower of the field.

that your faith wouldn’t stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

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.

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.”

It will be accomplished before his time. His branch will not be green.

What man is like Job, who drinks scorn like water,

As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.

A corrupt witness mocks justice, and the mouth of the wicked gulps down iniquity.

“Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher; “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”

Who knows the spirit of man, whether it goes upward, and the spirit of the animal, whether it goes downward to the earth?”

For I will not contend forever, neither will I always be angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls whom I have made.

The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how they are esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!

Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

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:

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.

and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might

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.

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

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

In the morning it sprouts and springs up. By evening, it is withered and dry.

My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.

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

For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

Behold, the Lord Yahweh will help me! Who is he who will condemn me? Behold, they will all grow old like a garment. The moths will eat them up.

Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth beneath; for the heavens will vanish away like smoke, and the earth will wear out like a garment. Its inhabitants will die in the same way, but my salvation will be forever, and my righteousness will not be abolished.

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

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?”

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

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

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.”

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

For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.

Behold, I am toward God even as you are. I am also formed out of the clay.

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

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.

I fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off like a locust.

Don’t be afraid, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel. I will help you,” says Yahweh. “Your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.

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?

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

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

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

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

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.

“But will God indeed dwell with men on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain you; how much less this house which I have built!

How much less will I answer him, And choose my words to argue with him?

He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.

how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!

who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream,

How much less man, who is a worm, the son of man, who is a worm!”

When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, you consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath.”

Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.

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

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

For the moth will eat them up like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool; but my righteousness will be forever, and my salvation to all generations.”

For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;