Behold, I am toward God even as you are. I am also formed out of the clay.
The LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return.*
Ya`akov's anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, *Am I in God's place, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?*
Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defenses are defenses of clay.
*Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God.
In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress shall overtake him. The hand of everyone who is in misery shall 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!
How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!
He will be your spokesman to the people; and it will happen, that he will be to you a mouth, and you will be to him as God.
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.
We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Messiah, as though God were entreating by us. We beg you on behalf of Messiah, be reconciled to God.