Proverbs 20:27

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.

Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.

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.

For who among men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man, which is in him? Even so, no one knows the things of God, except God’s Spirit.

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.”

Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?

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

The wind blows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but don’t know where it comes from and where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

The light will be dark in his tent. His lamp above him will be put out.

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

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

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

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.

For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity, that they may be without excuse.

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.

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

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);

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

I will make the horn of David to bud there. I have ordained a lamp for my anointed.

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.

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

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?”

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.

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?”

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.

I will give one tribe to his son, that David my servant may have a lamp always before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen for myself to put my name there.

when his lamp shone on my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,

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

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.

Yahweh is God, and he has given us light. Bind the sacrifice with cords, even to the horns of the altar.

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

The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?

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.

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

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

Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Because God has shown you all of this, there is no one so discreet and wise as you.

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

Then he opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction,

Behold, and answer me, Yahweh, my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death;

For you will light my lamp, Yahweh. My God will light up my darkness.

They looked to him, and were radiant. Their faces shall never be covered with shame.

Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.

Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.

Light dawns in the darkness for the upright, gracious, merciful, and righteous.

The heart knows its own bitterness and joy; he will not share these with a stranger.

Flog a scoffer, and the simple will learn prudence; rebuke one who has understanding, and he will gain knowledge.

Wounding blows cleanse away evil, and beatings purge the innermost parts.

For Zion’s sake I will not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until her righteousness shines out like the dawn, and her salvation like a burning lamp.

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:

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.

the people who sat in darkness saw a great light, to those who sat in the region and shadow of death, to them light has dawned.”

to shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death; to guide our feet into the way of peace.”

They, when they heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last. Jesus was left alone with the woman where she was, in the middle.

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

I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit

But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.

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.

To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

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?

For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

After the three and a half days, the breath of life from God entered into them, and they stood on their feet. Great fear fell on those who saw them.

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.

For you are my lamp, Yahweh. Yahweh will light up my darkness.

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

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

I will get my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

Your hands have made me and formed me. Give me understanding, that I may learn your commandments.

Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water, but a man of understanding will draw it out.

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:

When they stood, these stood. When they mounted up, these mounted up with them; for the spirit of the living creature was in them.

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.

If therefore your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, it will be wholly full of light, as when the lamp with its bright shining gives you light.”

They weren’t able to withstand the wisdom and the Spirit by which he spoke.

in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts among themselves accusing or else excusing them)