When his breath departs, he returns to the earth; on that very day his plans perish.
and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
When you hide your face, they are dismayed; when you take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.
then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.
By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away.
The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; he frustrates the plans of the peoples.
but you have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven. And the vessels of his house have been brought in before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines have drunk wine from them. And you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see or hear or know, but the God in whose hand is your breath, and whose are all your ways, you have not honored.
Stop regarding man in whose nostrils is breath, for of what account is he?
as long as my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils,
My days are past; my plans are broken off, the desires of my heart.
His sons come to honor, and he does not know it; they are brought low, and he perceives it not.
The breath of our nostrils, the Lord's anointed, was captured in their pits, of whom we said, “Under his shadow we shall live among the nations.”
You return man to dust and say, “Return, O children of man!”
“My spirit is broken; my days are extinct; the graveyard is ready for me.
But a man dies and is laid low; man breathes his last, and where is he?
For behold, I will bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life under heaven. Everything that is on the earth shall die.
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