And he took a broken bit of a pot, and, seated in the dust, was rubbing himself with the sharp edge of it.

When they lifted up their eyes at a distance and did not recognize him, they raised their voices and wept. And each of them tore his robe and they threw dust over their heads toward the sky.

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

They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk;
they perish forever while no one notices.

“For affliction does not come from the dust,
Nor does trouble sprout from the ground,

My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and suppurates.

“Why then do You not pardon my transgression
And take away my iniquity?
For now I will lie down in the dust;
And You will seek me, but I will not be.”

“Behold, this is the joy of His way;
And out of the dust others will spring.

Then you will have me pushed into the dust, so that I will seem disgusting to my very clothing.

Remember, I pray Thee, That as clay Thou hast made me, And unto dust Thou dost bring me back.

Your wise sayings are only dust, and your strong places are only earth.

If its root becometh old in the earth, And its stem doth die in the dust,

But truly a mountain falling comes to dust, and a rock is moved from its place;

Stones have waters worn away, Their outpourings wash away the dust of earth, And the hope of man Thou hast destroyed.

Sackcloth I have sewed on my skin, And have rolled in the dust my horn.

To the parts of Sheol ye go down, If together on the dust we may rest.

That -- I have known my Redeemer, The Living and the Last, For the dust he doth rise.

His bones have been full of his youth, And with him on the dust it lieth down.

Yea, they shall be even as chaff before the wind, and as dust that the storm carrieth away.

Together -- on the dust they lie down, And the worm doth cover them over.

So as to set on the dust a defence, And on a rock of the valleys a covering.

{At dusk} the murderer rises; he kills [the] needy and [the] poor, and in the night he is like a thief.

And [the] eye of [the] adulterer waits for dusk, saying, {'No eye will see me,'} and he places a covering [on his] face.

If he heap up as dust silver, And as clay prepare clothing,

Iron from the dust is taken, And from the firm stone brass.

A place of the sapphire are its stones, And it hath dust of gold.

In the fissures, of the ravines had they to dwell, in holes of dust and crags;

Casting me into mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.

Expire doth all flesh together, And man to dust returneth.

In the hardening of dust into hardness, And clods cleave together?

For she leaveth on the earth her eggs, And on the dust she doth warm them,

Hide them in the dust together, Their faces bind in secret.

There is not - upon the dust - his like, that hath been made to be without fear;

Therefore do I loathe it, And I have repented on dust and ashes.