¹⁹ By the sweat of your brow
    you shall eat bread,
Until you return to the ground,
    from which you were taken;
For you are dust,
    and to dust you shall return.^(A)

⁶ You made Adam, and you made his wife Eve
    to be his helper and support;
    and from these two the human race has come.
You said, ‘It is not good for the man to be alone;
    let us make him a helper like himself.’^(A)

¹⁵ All flesh would perish together,
    and mortals return to dust.^(A)

¹⁴ For he knows how we are formed,
    remembers that we are dust.^(A)

^29 [a]When you hide your face, they panic.
    Take away their breath, they perish
    and return to the dust.^(A)

⁷ And the dust returns to the earth as it once was,
    and the life breath returns to God who gave it.^[a](A)

¹ I too am a mortal, the same as all the rest,^(A)
    and a descendant of the first one formed of earth.^[a]
And in my mother’s womb I was molded into flesh