¹⁹ By the sweat of your brow^(A)
    you will eat your food^(B)
until you return to the ground,
    since from it you were taken;
for dust you are
    and to dust you will return.”^(C)

¹⁹ how much more those who live in houses of clay,^(A)
    whose foundations^(B) are in the dust,^(C)
    who are crushed^(D) more readily than a moth!^(E)

⁹ Remember that you molded me like clay.^(A)
    Will you now turn me to dust again?^(B)

¹⁶ Will it go down to the gates of death?^(A)
    Will we descend together into the dust?”^(B)

¹⁵ all humanity would perish^(A) together
    and mankind would return to the dust.^(B)

³ You turn people back to dust,
    saying, “Return to dust, you mortals.”^(A)

⁷ and the dust returns^(A) to the ground it came from,
    and the spirit returns to God^(B) who gave it.^(C)