Genesis 3:19

3:19 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 10:9-10

10:9 Remember that you have made me as with the clay;

will you return me to dust?

10:10 Did you not pour me out like milk,

and curdle me like cheese?

Job 34:15

34:15 all flesh would perish together

and human beings would return to dust.

Psalms 104:29

104:29 When you ignore them, they panic.

When you take away their life’s breath, they die

and return to dust.

Daniel 12:2

12:2 Many of those who sleep

in the dusty ground will awake –

some to everlasting life,

and others to shame and everlasting abhorrence.