'Dust' in the Bible

and they lift up their eyes from afar and have not discerned him, and they lift up their voice and weep, and rend each his robe, and sprinkle dust on their heads -- heavenward.

Also -- the inhabitants of houses of clay, (Whose foundation is in the dust, They bruise them before a moth.)

For sorrow cometh not forth from the dust, Nor from the ground springeth up misery.

Clothed hath been my flesh with worms, And a clod of dust, My skin hath been shrivelled and is loathsome,

Thou dost not take away my transgression, And cause to pass away mine iniquity, Because now, for dust I lie down: And Thou hast sought me -- and I am not!

Lo, this is the joy of his way, And from the dust others spring up.'

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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