Verse 14

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

Referenced Verses

• Gen 3:19 : 19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat food until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you will return.”
• Job 10:9 : 9 Remember that you have made me as with the clay; will you return me to dust?
• Ps 78:38-39 : 38 Yet he is compassionate. He forgives sin and does not destroy. He often holds back his anger, and does not stir up his fury. 39 He remembered that they were made of flesh, and were like a wind that blows past and does not return.
• Ps 89:47 : 47 Take note of my brief lifespan! Why do you make all people so mortal?
• Eccl 12:7 : 7 and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the life’s breath returns to God who gave it.
• Isa 29:16 : 16 Your thinking is perverse! Should the potter be regarded as clay? Should the thing made say about its maker,“He didn’t make me”? Or should the pottery say about the potter,“He doesn’t understand”?
• Job 13:25 : 25 Do you wish to torment a windblown leaf and chase after dry chaff?
• Job 7:5-7 : 5 My body is clothed with worms and dirty scabs; my skin is broken and festering. 6 My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle and they come to an end without hope. 7 Remember that my life is but a breath, that my eyes will never again see happiness.
• Job 7:21 : 21 And why do you not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I will lie down in the dust, and you will seek me diligently, but I will be gone.”