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 30:23

30:23 I know that you are bringing me to death,

to the meeting place for all the living.

Psalms 79:3

79:3 They have made their blood flow like water

all around Jerusalem, and there is no one to bury them.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

6:3 Even if a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years –

even if he lives a long, long time, but cannot enjoy his prosperity –

even if he were to live forever –

I would say, “A stillborn child is better off than he is!”

Ecclesiastes 12:5

12:5 and they are afraid of heights and the dangers in the street;

the almond blossoms grow white,

and the grasshopper drags itself along,

and the caper berry shrivels up –

because man goes to his eternal home,

and the mourners go about in the streets –

Ecclesiastes 12:7

12:7 and the dust returns to the earth as it was,

and the life’s breath returns to God who gave it.