Then said his wife to him, Dost thou still retain thy integrity? curse God, and die.

And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they raised their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads towards heaven.

How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth?

Although affliction cometh not forth from the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;

My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken and become lothsome.

And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.

Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say to him, What doest thou?

Thy hands have made me and fashioned me in all my parts; yet thou dost destroy me.

Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?

And dost thou open thy eyes upon such one, and bring me into judgment with thee?

For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?

The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man.

Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?

They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.

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

They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.

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

They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.

Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.

My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.

Though he should heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay?

The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.

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

I cry to thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.

If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;

Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not account of any of his matters.

All flesh would perish together, and man would turn again to dust.

If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions are multiplied, what doest thou to him?

Dost thou know when God disposed them, and caused the light of his cloud to shine?

Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge?

When the dust groweth into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together?

Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in the dust,

Hide them in the dust together; bind their faces in secret.

Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.