Behold, God has made me, just as he also has made you, and I, likewise, have been formed of the same clay.
And then the Lord God formed man from the clay of the earth, and he breathed into his face the breath of life, and man became a living soul.
By the sweat of your face shall you eat bread, until you return to the earth from which you were taken. For dust you are, and unto dust you shall return."
Jacob, being angry, responded to her, "Am I in the place of God, who has deprived you of the fruit of your womb?"
Remember, I ask you, that you have fashioned me like clay, and you will reduce me to dust.
Your remembrance will be compared to ashes, and your necks will be reduced to clay.
Yet I speak this way to the Almighty, and I desire to argue with God,
When he will be satisfied, he will be constrained; he will seethe, and all anguish will fall upon him.
then, would he grant me a hearing, so that the Almighty would listen to my desire, and he who judges would himself write a book,
How much more will those who live in houses of clay, which have an earthly foundation, be consumed like the moth?
He will speak for you to the people, and he will be your mouth. But you will be with him in those things that pertain to God.
But we hold this treasure in earthen vessels, so that what is sublime may be of the power of God, and not of us.
For we know that, when our earthly house of this habitation is dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in heaven.
Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, so that God is exhorting through us. We beseech you for Christ: be reconciled to God.