⁴ His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; In that very day his thoughts perish.

⁷ and the dust returneth to the earth as it was, and the spirit returneth unto God who gave it.

²⁹ Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled; Thou takest away their breath, they die, And return to their dust.

⁷ And Jehovah God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

⁶ We speak wisdom, however, among them that are fullgrown: yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nought:

¹⁹ in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

¹⁰ Jehovah bringeth the counsel of the nations to nought; He maketh the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.

¹¹ My days are past, my purposes are broken off, Even the thoughts of my heart.

¹ My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, The grave is `ready' for me.

²¹ His sons come to honor, and he knoweth it not; And they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.

¹⁷ And I, behold, I do bring the flood of waters upon this earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; everything that is in the earth shall die.

²³ but hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou and thy lords, thy wives and thy concubines, have drunk wine from them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know; and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified.

²⁰ The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of Jehovah, was taken in their pits; Of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the nations.

²² Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for wherein is he to be accounted of?

³ Thou turnest man to destruction, And sayest, Return, ye children of men.

³ (For my life is yet whole in me, And the spirit of God is in my nostrils);

¹⁰ But man dieth, and is laid low: Yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?