Abraham answered and said, “Behold, I have undertaken to speak to the Lord, I who am but dust and ashes.
Genesis 3:19 - English Standard Version 2016 By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition In the sweat of your face shall you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you shall return. American Standard Version (1901) in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. Common English Bible by the sweat of your face you will eat bread— until you return to the fertile land, since from it you were taken; you are soil, to the soil you will return.” Catholic Public Domain Version 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." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return to the earth, out of which thou wast taken: for dust thou art, and into dust thou shalt return. |
Abraham answered and said, “Behold, I have undertaken to speak to the Lord, I who am but dust and ashes.
then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.
“I am a sojourner and foreigner among you; give me property among you for a burying place, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”
thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field.
And he said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.”
Remember that you have made me like clay; and will you return me to the dust?
And after my skin has been thus destroyed, yet in my flesh I shall see God,
how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like the moth.
When you hide your face, they are dismayed; when you take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.
It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives to his beloved sleep.
my strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to my jaws; you lay me in the dust of death.
All the prosperous of the earth eat and worship; before him shall bow all who go down to the dust, even the one who could not keep himself alive.
One who wanders from the way of good sense will rest in the assembly of the dead.
And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven. It is an unhappy business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with.
and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
As he came from his mother’s womb he shall go again, naked as he came, and shall take nothing for his toil that he may carry away in his hand.
And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven.
Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.
For you remember, brothers, our labor and toil: we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.
For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat.
And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,