19 By the sweat of your brow(A)
    you will eat your food(B)
until you return to the ground,
    since from it you were taken;
for dust you are
    and to dust you will return.”(C)

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19 (A)In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread
Till you return to the ground,
For out of it you were taken;
(B)For dust you are,
And (C)to dust you shall return.”

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27 Then Abraham spoke up again: “Now that I have been so bold as to speak to the Lord, though I am nothing but dust and ashes,(A)

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27 Then Abraham answered and said, “Indeed now, I who am (A)but dust and ashes have taken it upon myself to speak to the Lord:

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19 how much more those who live in houses of clay,(A)
    whose foundations(B) are in the dust,(C)
    who are crushed(D) more readily than a moth!(E)

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

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Remember that you molded me like clay.(A)
    Will you now turn me to dust again?(B)

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Remember, I pray, (A)that You have made me like clay.
And will You turn me into dust again?

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16 Will it go down to the gates of death?(A)
    Will we descend together into the dust?”(B)

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16 Will they go down (A)to the gates of [a]Sheol?
Shall we have (B)rest together in the dust?”

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Footnotes

  1. Job 17:16 The abode of the dead

15 all humanity would perish(A) together
    and mankind would return to the dust.(B)

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15 (A)All flesh would perish together,
And man would return to dust.

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You turn people back to dust,
    saying, “Return to dust, you mortals.”(A)

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You turn man to destruction,
And say, (A)“Return, O children of men.”

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20 All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return.(A)

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20 All go to one place: (A)all are from the dust, and all return to dust.

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and the dust returns(A) to the ground it came from,
    and the spirit returns to God(B) who gave it.(C)

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(A)Then the dust will return to the earth as it was,
(B)And the spirit will return to God (C)who gave it.

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