And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and did not recognize him, they lifted up their voice, and wept. And each one tore his robe, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.

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

For affliction does not come forth from the dust, nor does trouble spring out of the ground,

My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.

And why do thou not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I shall lay down in the dust, and thou will seek me diligently, but I shall not be.

Remember, I beseech thee, that thou have fashioned me as clay. And will thou bring me into dust again?

The waters wear the stones. The overflowings of it wash away the dust of the earth. So thou destroy the hope of man.

They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity, and their heart prepares deceit.

I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and have laid my horn in the dust.

It shall go down to the bars of Sheol when once there is rest in the dust.

His bones are full of his youth, but it shall lie down with him in the dust.

They lie down alike in the dust, and the worm covers them.

Then thou shall lay up gold as dust, and [the gold of] Ophir as the stones of the brooks.

Surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, nor shall my tongue utter deceit.

Though he heaps up silver as the dust, and prepares raiment as the clay,

The stones of it are the place of sapphires, and it has dust of gold.

He has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.

If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hastened to deceit

all flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again to dust.

when the dust runs into a mass, and the clods cleave fast together?

For she leaves her eggs on the ground, and warms them in the dust.

Therefore I abhor [myself], and repent in dust and ashes.