Genesis 3:19

Tree of Life Version

By the sweat of your brow will you eat food, until you return to the ground, since from it were you taken. For you are dust, and to dust will you return.”

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 12:7

Then the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Job 34:15

all flesh would perish together and mankind would return to dust.

Psalm 104:29

But when You hide Your face— they are dismayed. You take away their breath— they perish, and return to their dust.

Genesis 2:7

Then Adonai Elohim formed the man out of the dust from the ground and He breathed into his nostrils a breath of life—so the man became a living being.

Psalm 90:3

You turn mankind back to dust, saying, “Return, children of Adam!”

Ephesians 4:28

The one who steals must steal no longer—instead he must work, doing something useful with his own hands, so he may have something to share with the one who has need.

Ecclesiastes 3:20

Both go to one place. Both were taken from the dust, and both return to the dust.

Genesis 18:27

Then Abraham answered and said, “Look, pray, I have decided to speak to my Lord, though I am dust and ashes.

Daniel 12:2

Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake—some to everlasting life, and others to shame and everlasting contempt.

Ecclesiastes 1:3

What does a person gain in all his labor that he toils under the sun?

Psalm 22:15

I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed. My heart is like wax— melting within my innards.

Genesis 23:4

“I am an outsider and a sojourner among you. Give me a gravesite among you so that I may bury my dead from before my presence.”

2 Thessalonians 3:10

For even when we were with you, we would give you this order: if anyone will not work, neither shall he eat.

Psalm 103:14

For He knows our frame. He remembers that we are but dust.

1 Thessalonians 2:9

For you recall, brothers and sisters, our labor and hardship—working night and day, so as not to burden any of you while we proclaimed to you the Good News of God.

Ecclesiastes 5:15

This too is a grievous wrong. Just as he came, so will he go, so what does he gain, from his toiling for the wind?

Ecclesiastes 1:13

I applied my heart to seek and examine by wisdom all that is done under heaven. What a burdensome task God has given the sons of men to keep them occupied.

Proverbs 21:16

Whoever strays from the path of wisdom ends up in the congregation of the dead.

Psalm 22:29

For the kingdom belongs to Adonai, and He rules over the nations.

Job 21:26

Together they lie in the dust and worms cover over them.

Job 19:26

Even after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God;

Job 1:21

Then he said: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will return there. Adonai gave and Adonai has taken away; blessed be the Name of Adonai.”

1 Corinthians 15:47

The first man is of the earth, made of dust; the second man is from heaven.

Hebrews 9:27

And just as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this judgment,

Genesis 3:18

Thorns and thistles will sprout for you. You will eat the plants of the field,

Job 4:19

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

Psalm 104:23

Man goes out to his work, and to his labor until the evening.

Psalm 127:2

In vain you rise up early and stay up late, eating the bread of toil— for He provides for His beloved ones even in their sleep.

Genesis 5:5

So all Adam’s days that he lived were 930 years, and then he died.

Job 10:9

Remember You fashioned me like clay; will You return me to dust?