Verse 27

And Abraham answering said, Truly, I who am only dust, have undertaken to put my thoughts before the Lord:

Referenced Verses

  • Gen 3:19 : 19 With the hard work of your hands you will get your bread till you go back to the earth from which you were taken: for dust you are and to the dust you will go back.
  • Isa 6:5 : 5 Then I said, The curse is on me, and my fate is destruction; for I am a man of unclean lips, living among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of armies.
  • Luke 18:1 : 1 And he made a story for them, the point of which was that men were to go on making prayer and not get tired;
  • Gen 2:7 : 7 And the Lord God made man from the dust of the earth, breathing into him the breath of life: and man became a living soul.
  • 1 Cor 15:47-48 : 47 The first man is from the earth, and of the earth: the second man is from heaven. 48 Those who are of the earth are like the man who was from the earth: and those who are of heaven are like the one from heaven.
  • 2 Cor 5:1-2 : 1 For we are conscious that if this our tent of flesh is taken down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in heaven. 2 For in this we are crying in weariness, greatly desiring to be clothed with our house from heaven:
  • Isa 64:8 : 8 Be not very angry, O Lord, and do not keep our sins in mind for ever: give ear to our prayer, for we are all your people.
  • Luke 5:8 : 8 But Simon, when he saw it, went down at the knees of Jesus and said, Go away from me, O Lord, for I am a sinner.
  • Gen 18:30-32 : 30 And he said, Let not the Lord be angry with me if I say, What if there are thirty there? And he said, I will not do it if there are thirty. 31 And he said, See now, I have undertaken to put my thoughts before the Lord: what if there are twenty there? And he said, I will have mercy because of the twenty. 32 And he said, O let not the Lord be angry and I will say only one word more: by chance there may be ten there. And he said, I will have mercy because of the ten.
  • Ezra 9:6 : 6 I said, O my God, shame keeps me from lifting up my face to you, my God: for our sins are increased higher than our heads and our evil-doing has come up to heaven.
  • Job 4:19 : 19 How much more those living in houses of earth, whose bases are in the dust! They are crushed more quickly than an insect;
  • Job 30:19 : 19 Truly God has made me low, even to the earth, and I have become like dust.
  • Job 42:6-8 : 6 For this cause I give witness that what I said is false, and in sorrow I take my seat in the dust. 7 And it came about, after he had said these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, I am very angry with you and your two friends, because you have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job has. 8 And now, take seven oxen and seven sheep, and go to my servant Job, and give a burned offering for yourselves, and my servant Job will make prayer for you, that I may not send punishment on you; because you have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job has.
  • Ps 8:4 : 4 What is man, that you keep him in mind? the son of man, that you take him into account?
  • Ps 144:3 : 3 Lord, what is man, that you keep him in mind? or the son of man that you take him into account?
  • Eccl 12:7 : 7 And the dust goes back to the earth as it was, and the spirit goes back to God who gave it.