As what shall one
born of woman be considered in your presence? Shaped from dust has he been,
maggots’ food shall be his dwelling; he is spat saliva, moulded clay, and for
dust is his longing. What will the clay reply and the one shaped by hand? And
what advice will he be able to understand? (1QS 11.21-22 in The Dead Sea
Scrolls Study Edition, eds. Florentino García Martínez and Eibert J.C.
Tigchelaar [Leiden: Brill, 1997], 99)
