⁴ His spirit goeth forth, he returneth to his earth, In that day have his thoughts perished.

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

²⁹ Thou hidest Thy face -- they are troubled, Thou gatherest their spirit -- they expire, And unto their dust they turn back.

⁷ And Jehovah God formeth the man -- dust from the ground, and breatheth into his nostrils breath of life, and the man becometh a living creature.

⁶ And wisdom we speak among the perfect, and wisdom not of this age, nor of the rulers of this age -- of those becoming useless,

¹⁹ by the sweat of thy face thou dost eat bread till thy return unto the ground, for out of it hast thou been taken, for dust thou `art', and unto dust thou turnest back.'

¹⁰ Jehovah made void the counsel of nations, He disallowed the thoughts of the peoples.

¹¹ My days have passed by, My devices have been broken off, The possessions of my heart!

¹ My spirit hath been destroyed, My days extinguished -- graves `are' for me.

²¹ Honoured are his sons, and he knoweth not; And they are little, and he attendeth not to them.

¹⁷ `And I, lo, I am bringing in the deluge of waters on the earth to destroy all flesh, in which `is' a living spirit, from under the heavens; all that `is' in the earth doth expire.

²³ and against the Lord of the heavens thou hast lifted up thyself; and the vessels of His house they have brought in before thee, and thou, and thy great men, thy wives, and thy concubines, are drinking wine with them, and gods of silver, and of gold, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone, that are not seeing, nor hearing, nor knowing, thou hast praised: and the God in whose hand `is' thy breath, and all thy ways, Him thou hast not honoured.

²⁰ The breath of our nostrils -- the anointed of Jehovah, Hath been captured in their pits, of whom we said: `In his shadow we do live among nations.'

²² Cease for you from man, Whose breath `is' in his nostrils, For -- in what is he esteemed?

³ Thou turnest man unto a bruised thing, And sayest, Turn back, ye sons of men.

³ For all the while my breath `is' in me, And the spirit of God in my nostrils.

¹⁰ And a man dieth, and becometh weak, And man expireth, and where `is' he?