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19 By the sweat of your face
    you shall eat bread
until you return to the ground,
    for out of it you were taken;
you are dust,
    and to dust you shall return.”(A)

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A voice says, “Cry out!”
    And I said,[a] “What shall I cry?”
All flesh is grass;
    their constancy is like the flower of the field.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 40.6 Q ms Gk Vg: MT and he said

The grass withers; the flower fades,
    [[when the breath of the Lord blows upon it;
    surely the people are grass.(A)

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