Job 34:15

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 3:19 : 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.
  • Eccl 12:7 : 7 And the dust goes back to the earth as it was, and the spirit goes back to God who gave it.
  • Isa 57:16 : 16 For I will not give punishment for ever, or be angry without end: for from me breath goes out; and I it was who made the souls.
  • Isa 27:4 : 4 My passion is over: if the thorns were fighting against me, I would make an attack on them, and they would be burned up together.
  • Job 9:22 : 22 It is all the same to me; so I say, He puts an end to the sinner and to him who has done no wrong together.
  • Job 10:9 : 9 O keep in mind that you made me out of earth; and will you send me back again to dust?
  • Job 30:23 : 23 For I am certain that you will send me back to death, and to the meeting-place ordered for all living.
  • Ps 90:3-9 : 3 You send man back to his dust; and say, Go back, you children of men. 4 For to you a thousand years are no more than yesterday when it is past, and like a watch in the night. 5 ... 6 In the morning it is green; in the evening it is cut down, and becomes dry. 7 We are burned up by the heat of your passion, and troubled by your wrath. 8 You have put our evil doings before you, our secret sins in the light of your face. 9 For all our days have gone by in your wrath; our years come to an end like a breath. 10 The measure of our life is seventy years; and if through strength it may be eighty years, its pride is only trouble and sorrow, for it comes to an end and we are quickly gone.

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  • Eccl 3:19-21
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    85%

    19Because the fate of the sons of men and the fate of the beasts is the same. As is the death of one so is the death of the other, and all have one spirit. Man is not higher than the beasts; because all is to no purpose.

    20All go to one place, all are of the dust, and all will be turned to dust again.

    21Who is certain that the spirit of the sons of men goes up to heaven, or that the spirit of the beasts goes down to the earth?

  • Eccl 12:7-8
    2 verses
    81%

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

    8All things are to no purpose, says the Preacher, all is to no purpose.

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

  • Job 14:10-12
    3 verses
    79%

    10But man comes to his death and is gone: he gives up his spirit, and where is he?

    11The waters go from a pool, and a river becomes waste and dry;

    12So man goes down to his last resting-place and comes not again: till the heavens come to an end, they will not be awake or come out of their sleep.

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

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

  • 16If you are wise, take note of this; give ear to the voice of my words.

  • 24For it is said, All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the grass. The grass becomes dry and the flower dead:

  • 4Man is like a breath: his life is like a shade which is quickly gone.

  • Ps 103:14-16
    3 verses
    76%

    14For he has knowledge of our feeble frame; he sees that we are only dust.

    15As for man, his days are as grass: his beautiful growth is like the flower of the field.

    16The wind goes over it and it is gone; and its place sees it no longer.

  • Gen 7:21-22
    2 verses
    75%

    21And destruction came on every living thing moving on the earth, birds and cattle and beasts and everything which went on the earth, and every man.

    22Everything on the dry land, in which was the breath of life, came to its end.

  • 26Together they go down to the dust, and are covered by the worm.

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

  • 22Have no more to do with man, whose life is only a breath, for he is of no value.

  • 12But man, like the animals, does not go on for ever; he comes to an end like the beasts.

  • Isa 40:6-7
    2 verses
    74%

    6A voice of one saying, Give a cry! And I said, What is my cry to be? All flesh is grass, and all its strength like the flower of the field.

    7The grass becomes dry, the flower is dead; because the breath of the Lord goes over it: truly the people is grass.

  • 19With 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.

  • 2He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again.

  • 39So he kept in mind that they were only flesh; a breath which is quickly gone, and will not come again.

  • 11And you will be full of grief at the end of your life, when your flesh and your body are wasted;

  • 29All the fat ones of the earth will give him worship; all those who go down to the dust will make themselves low before him, even he who has not enough for the life of his soul.

  • 22And his soul comes near to the underworld, and his life to the angels of death.

  • 30He does not come out of the dark; his branches are burned by the flame, and the wind takes away his bud.

  • 1My spirit is broken, my days are ended, the last resting-place is ready for me.

  • 9By the breath of God destruction takes them, and by the wind of his wrath they are cut off.

  • 39All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one flesh of men, another of beasts, another of birds, and another of fishes.

  • 14If death takes a man, will he come to life again? All the days of my trouble I would be waiting, till the time came for me to be free.

  • 11They will come to their end; but you are for ever; they will become old as a robe;

  • 12Your wise sayings are only dust, and your strong places are only earth.

  • Job 4:19-20
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    71%

    19How much more those living in houses of earth, whose bases are in the dust! They are crushed more quickly than an insect;

    20Between morning and evening they are completely broken; they come to an end for ever, and no one takes note.

  • Eccl 5:15-16
    2 verses
    71%

    15And this again is a great evil, that in all points as he came so will he go; and what profit has he in working for the wind?

    16All his days are in the dark, and he has much sorrow, pain, disease, and trouble.

  • 14For death comes to us all, and we are like water drained out on the earth, which it is not possible to take up again; and God will not take away the life of the man whose purpose is that he who has been sent away may not be completely cut off from him.

  • 38When the earth becomes hard as metal, and is joined together in masses?

  • 11His bones are full of young strength, but it will go down with him into the dust.

  • 13So that you are turning your spirit against God, and letting such words go out of your mouth?

  • 7Like the waste from his body he comes to an end for ever: those who have seen him say, Where is he?

  • 3Because of this the land will be dry, and everyone living in it will be wasted away, with the beasts of the field and the birds of heaven; even the fishes of the sea will be taken away.

  • 33The earth of the valley covering his bones is sweet to him, and all men come after him, as there were unnumbered before him.

  • 26They will come to an end, but you will still go on; they all will become old like a coat, and like a robe they will be changed: