For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:

Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.

By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent.

For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.

Behold, I am according to thy wish in God's stead: I also am formed out of the clay.