'Dust' in the Bible
Thus they lifted up their eyes from afar, but they did not recognize him, so they raised their voice, and they wept, and each man tore his outer garment and threw dust on their heads {toward the sky}.
How much more dwellers in clay houses, whose foundation [is] in the dust? They are crushed like a moth.
Indeed, mischief does not come from the dust, and trouble does not sprout from the earth.
My body is clothed [with] maggots and clods of dust; my skin hardens, then it gives way [again].
And why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my guilt? For now I shall lie in the dust, and you will seek me, but {I will be no more}."
Look, this [is] the joy of his way, and from dust others will spring up.
Please remember that you made me like clay, but you turn me into dust [again]?
"I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and I have inserted {my pride} in the dust.
Will they go down [to] the bars of Sheol? Or shall we descend together into the dust?"
His bones were full of his vigor, but it will lie down with him on [the] dust.
They lie down together in [the] dust, and maggots cover them.
and [if you] put gold ore in [the] dust, and [the] gold of Ophir in [the] rock of wadis,
If he heaps up silver like the dust and fashions clothing like the clay,
Iron is taken from dust, and he pours out copper [from] ore.
He has cast me into the dirt, and I have become like dust and ashes.
all flesh would perish together, and humankind would return to dust.
at [the] flowing of [the] dust into a cast and [the] clods cling together?
Hide them in the dust together; bind their faces in the grave.
Therefore I despise [myself] and repent in dust and ashes."