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

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

For affliction comes not forth from the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;

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

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

Remember, I beseech you, that you have made me as the clay; and will you bring me into dust again?

The waters wear the stones: you wash away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and you destroy the hope of man.

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

They shall go down to the gates 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 shall you lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.

Though he heap up silver as the dust, and pile up clothing 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 am become like dust and ashes.

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

When the dust grows into clumps, and the clods cleave fast together?

Which leaves her eggs in the earth, and warms them in dust,

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

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