so that they had to live ¹  in the dry stream beds, ²  in the holes of the ground, and among the rocks.

when the dust hardens ¹  into a mass, and the clumps of earth stick together?

Before him the coastlands ¹  will bow down, and his enemies will lick the dust. ² 

By the sweat of your brow ¹  you will eat food until you return to the ground, ²  for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you will return.” ³ 

My body ¹  is clothed ²  with worms ³  and dirty scabs; ⁴  my skin is broken ⁵  and festering.

Remember that you have made me as with ¹  the clay; will ²  you return me to dust?

Will ¹  it ²  go down to the barred gates ³  of death? Will ⁴  we descend ⁵  together into the dust?”

As for me, I know that my Redeemer ¹  lives, and that as the last ²  he will stand upon the earth. ³ 

His bones ¹  were full of his youthful vigor, ²  but that vigor will lie down with him in the dust.

Together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover over them both.

and throw ¹  your gold ²  in the dust – your gold ³  of Ophir among the rocks in the ravines –

all flesh would perish together and human beings would return to dust.

For she leaves ¹  her eggs on the ground, and lets them be warmed on the soil.

The likes of it is not on earth, a creature ¹  without fear.

Therefore I despise myself, ¹  and I repent in dust and ashes!

For he knows what we are made of; ¹  he realizes ²  we are made of clay. ³ 

Then Abraham asked, “Since I have undertaken to speak to the Lord ¹  (although I am but dust and ashes), ² 

as water wears away stones, and torrents ¹  wash away the soil, ²  so you destroy man’s hope. ³ 

“What ¹  profit is there in taking my life, ²  in my descending into the Pit? ³  Can the dust of the grave ⁴  praise you? Can it declare your loyalty? ⁵ 

The fortified city (along with the very tops of your ¹  walls) ²  he will knock down, he will bring it down, he will throw it down to the dusty ground. ³