TSK · Ecclesiastes 12:7

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.”

Then they threw themselves down with their faces to the ground and said,“O God, the God of the spirits of all people, will you be angry with the whole community when only one man sins?”

how much more to those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth?

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

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

You make mankind return to the dust, and say,“Return, O people!”

Both go to the same place, both come from the dust, and to dust both return.

So King Zedekiah made a secret promise to Jeremiah and sealed it with an oath. He promised,“As surely as the LORD lives who has given us life and breath, I promise you this: I will not kill you or hand you over to those men who want to kill you.”

The Repentance of Judah This is an oracle, the LORD’s message concerning Israel: The LORD– he who stretches out the heavens and lays the foundations of the earth, who forms the human spirit within a person– says,

and congregation of the firstborn, who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous, who have been made perfect,