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

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.

¹⁴ If he set his heart upon himself, `If' he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath;

¹⁵ All flesh shall perish together, And man shall turn again unto dust.

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

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

⁶ And it repented Jehovah that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

⁷ And Jehovah said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the ground; both man, and beast, and creeping things, and birds of the heavens; for it repenteth me that I have made them.

³⁵ I, Jehovah, have spoken, surely this will I do unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.

¹⁰ In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind?

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