³ You send man back to his dust; and say, Go back, you children of men.

¹⁹ With the hard work of your hands you will get your bread till you go back to the earth from which you were taken: for dust you are and to the dust you will go back.

¹⁴ If he made his spirit come back to him, taking his breath into himself again,

¹⁵ All flesh would come to an end together, and man would go back to the dust.

²⁹ If your face is veiled, they are troubled; when you take away their breath, they come to an end, and go back to the dust.

⁷ And the dust goes back to the earth as it was, and the spirit goes back to God who gave it.

⁶ And the Lord had sorrow because he had made man on the earth, and grief was in his heart.

⁷ And the Lord said, I will take away man, whom I have made, from the face of the earth, even man and beast and that which goes on the earth and every bird of the air; for I have sorrow for having made them.

³⁵ I the Lord have said it, and this I will certainly do to all this evil people who have come together against me: in this waste land destruction will come on them, and death will be their fate.

¹⁰ In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all flesh of man.

⁴ Man's breath goes out, he is turned back again to dust; in that day all his purposes come to an end.