Psalms 103:14

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.

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

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

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

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.”

So teach us to count our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

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.

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:

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.

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.”

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!

“Isn’t a man forced to labor on earth? Aren’t his days like the days of a hired hand?

Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye will no more see good.

Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can’t pass;

How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?

(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.

He who sows wickedness reaps trouble, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.

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?”

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,

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

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

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?”

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

if I sin, then you mark me. You will not acquit me from my iniquity.

“Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

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

Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.”

No enemy will tax him. No wicked man will oppress him.

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?

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.

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?

to the festal gathering and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,

Behold, today your eyes have seen how Yahweh had delivered you today into my hand in the cave. Some urged me to kill you; but I spared you; and I said, I will not stretch out my hand against my lord; for he is Yahweh’s anointed.

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

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

He will not always accuse; neither will he stay angry forever.

How many are the days of your servant? When will you execute judgment on those who persecute me?

For the scepter of wickedness won’t remain over the allotment of the righteous; so that the righteous won’t use their hands to do evil.

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

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

So Zedekiah the king swore secretly to Jeremiah, saying, “As Yahweh lives, who made us this soul, I will not put you to death, neither will I give you into the hand of these men who seek your life.”

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

Why 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.”

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

“Yahweh, show me my end, what is the measure of my days. Let me know how frail I am.

In measure, when you send them away, you contend with them. He has removed them with his rough blast in the day of the east wind.

You 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?”