all flesh would perish together and mankind would return to the dust.
By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground—because out of it were you taken. For
before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
For I will not accuse you forever, nor will I always be angry; for then the spirit of man would grow weak before Me—the
Yes, I know that You will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.
It is all the same, and so I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’
Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust?
You return man to dust, saying, “Return, O sons of mortals.”
I am not angry. If only thorns and briers confronted Me, I would march and trample them, I would burn them to the ground