Look, I am the same as you before God; I too am formed from clay.
how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth?
We are therefore ambassadors for Messiah, as though God were making His appeal through us. We beg you on behalf of Messiah, be reconciled to God.
For we know that if the tent, our earthly home, is torn down, we have a building from God—a home not made with human hands, eternal in the heavens.
O, that I had someone to hear me! Look, here is my signature, let Shaddai answer me, let the accuser write the indictment!
In the fullness of his plenty, he will be distressed; the full force of misery will come upon him.
Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.
Remember You fashioned me like clay; will You return me to dust?
He will be your spokesman to the people, so that he may act as a mouthpiece for you, and it will be as if you were as God for him.
But Jacob became furious with Rachel and said, “Am I, instead of God, the one who withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”
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.”
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.
Still, I desire to speak to Shaddai and to argue my case with God.
But we have this treasure in jars of clay, so that the surpassing greatness of the power may be from God and not from ourselves.