Psalm 103:14

New English Translation

For he knows what we are made of; he realizes we are made of clay.

Cross References

Genesis 2:7

The Lord God formed the man from the soil of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

Genesis 3:19

By the sweat of your brow you will eat food until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you will return.”

Job 10:9

Remember that you have made me as with the clay; will you return me to dust?

Job 13:25

Do you wish to torment a windblown leaf and chase after dry chaff?

Job 7:21

And why do you not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I will lie down in the dust, and you will seek me diligently, but I will be gone.”

Psalm 89:47

Take note of my brief lifespan! Why do you make all people so mortal?

Ecclesiastes 12:7

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the life’s breath returns to God who gave it.

Isaiah 29:16

Your thinking is perverse! Should the potter be regarded as clay? Should the thing made say about its maker, “He didn’t make me”? Or should the pottery say about the potter, “He doesn’t understand”?