Then Abraham answered and said, “Look, pray, I have decided to speak to my Lord, though I am dust and ashes.
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.” 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. |
Then Abraham answered and said, “Look, pray, I have decided to speak to my Lord, though I am dust and ashes.
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.
“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.”
Thorns and thistles will sprout for you. You will eat the plants of the field,
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.”
Even after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God;
how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth?
But when You hide Your face— they are dismayed. You take away their breath— they perish, and return to their dust.
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.
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed. My heart is like wax— melting within my innards.
Whoever strays from the path of wisdom ends up in the congregation of the dead.
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.
What does a person gain in all his labor that he toils under the sun?
Then the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
Both go to one place. Both were taken from the dust, and both return to the dust.
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?
Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake—some to everlasting life, and others to shame and everlasting contempt.
The first man is of the earth, made of dust; the second man is from heaven.
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.
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.
For even when we were with you, we would give you this order: if anyone will not work, neither shall he eat.
And just as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this judgment,