Verse 4

When their breath departs, they return to the earth; on that very day their plans perish.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 104:29 : 29 When You hide Your face, they are terrified; when You take away their breath, they die and return to the dust.
  • Eccl 12:7 : 7 And the dust returns to the earth as it once was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
  • Gen 2:7 : 7 Then the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground, breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
  • 1 Cor 2:6 : 6 Now, we do speak wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are passing away.
  • Gen 3:19 : 19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread until you return to the ground, because from it you were taken; for dust you are, and to dust you will return.
  • Gen 6:17 : 17 And I will bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh that has the breath of life in it, under the heavens; everything that is on the earth will perish.
  • Job 14:21 : 21 If his sons are honored, he does not know it; if they are brought low, he does not see it.
  • Job 17:1 : 1 My spirit is broken, my days have faded away, and the grave is ready for me.
  • Job 17:11 : 11 My days have passed, my plans are broken off, and the desires of my heart are gone.
  • Ps 33:10 : 10 The Lord frustrates the counsel of the nations; He thwarts the plans of the peoples.
  • Ps 90:3 : 3 You turn humankind back to dust, saying, 'Return, O children of man.'
  • Isa 2:22 : 22 Stop trusting in man, who has but a breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?
  • Lam 4:20 : 20 The breath of our nostrils, the LORD’s anointed, was captured in their traps, of whom we said, 'Under his shadow we shall live among the nations.'
  • Dan 5:23 : 23 Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. You had the vessels from His house brought to you, and you and your nobles, your wives, and your concubines drank wine from them. You praised gods of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which cannot see, hear, or understand. But the God who holds your breath in His hand and controls all your ways, you have not glorified.
  • Job 27:3 : 3 as long as my breath remains in me and the spirit of God is in my nostrils,
  • Job 14:10 : 10 But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last and where is he?