עָפָר

Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.

Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;

Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone.

The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.

To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.

He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.

All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust.

When the dust groweth into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together?

Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust,

Hide them in the dust together; and bind their faces in secret.

Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear.

Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.

Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.

Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets.

My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.

What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?

For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.

They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust.

He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:

For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour the dust thereof.

For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.

Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.

He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill;