²⁹ You hide your face: they are troubled; You take away their breath: they die, and return to the dust.

¹⁴ If he set his heart on himself, If he gathered to himself his spirit and his breath;

¹⁵ All flesh would perish together, And man would turn again to dust.

⁷ And the dust returns to the earth as it was, And the spirit returns to God who gave it.

⁷ You, Yahweh, when you favored me, made my mountain to stand strong. But when you hid your face, I was troubled.

¹⁹ By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return."

⁴ His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.

³ You turn man to destruction, saying, "Return, you children of men."

¹⁷ Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come on them; so that they will say in that day, Haven't these evils come on us because our God is not among us?

²⁰ For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hope

²¹ that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

²² For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.

²⁵ neither is he served by men's hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath, and all things.

²⁹ When he gives quietness, who then can condemn? When he hides his face, who then can see him? Alike whether to a nation, or to a man:

²⁴ Why hide you your face, And hold me for your enemy?

⁹ Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?