Psalms 146:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 104:29 : 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.
  • 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.
  • Gen 2:7 : 7 And the Lord God made man from the dust of the earth, breathing into him the breath of life: and man became a living soul.
  • 1 Cor 2:6 : 6 But still we have wisdom for those who are complete in knowledge, though not the wisdom of this world, and not of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nothing:
  • 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.
  • Gen 6:17 : 17 For truly, I will send a great flow of waters over the earth, for the destruction from under the heaven of all flesh in which is the breath of life; everything on the earth will come to an end.
  • Job 14:21 : 21 His sons come to honour, and he has no knowledge of it; they are made low, but he is not conscious of it.
  • Job 17:1 : 1 My spirit is broken, my days are ended, the last resting-place is ready for me.
  • Job 17:11 : 11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the desires of my heart.
  • Ps 33:10 : 10 The Lord undoes the designs of the nations; he makes the thoughts of the peoples without effect.
  • Ps 90:3 : 3 You send man back to his dust; and say, Go back, you children of men.
  • Isa 2:22 : 22 Have no more to do with man, whose life is only a breath, for he is of no value.
  • Lam 4:20 : 20 Our breath of life, he on whom the holy oil was put, was taken in their holes; of whom we said, Under his shade we will be living among the nations.
  • Dan 5:23 : 23 But you have been lifting yourself up against the Lord of heaven, and they have put the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your women, have taken wine in them; and you have given praise to gods of silver and gold, of brass and iron and wood and stone, who are without the power of seeing or hearing, and without knowledge: and to the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, you have not given glory;
  • Job 27:3 : 3 (For all my breath is still in me, and the spirit of God is my life;)
  • Job 14:10 : 10 But man comes to his death and is gone: he gives up his spirit, and where is he?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 34:14-15
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    80%

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

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

  • Ps 144:4
    79%

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

  • Eccl 12:7
    77%

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

  • Ps 104:29
    77%

    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.

  • Job 14:10-12
    3 verses
    76%

    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.

  • Eccl 3:19-20
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    76%

    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.

  • Isa 2:22
    76%

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

  • Ps 146:3
    76%

    3Put not your faith in rulers, or in the son of man, in whom there is no salvation.

  • Job 14:2
    75%

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

  • Ps 103:15-16
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    75%

    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.

  • Job 7:9-10
    2 verses
    74%

    9A cloud comes to an end and is gone; so he who goes down into the underworld comes not up again.

    10He will not come back to his house, and his place will have no more knowledge of him.

  • Ps 49:12
    74%

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

  • Ps 49:17
    74%

    17For at his death, he will take nothing away; his glory will not go down after him.

  • Ps 90:3
    73%

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

  • Job 17:1
    73%

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

  • Job 4:20-21
    2 verses
    73%

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

    21If their tent-cord is pulled up, do they not come to an end, and without wisdom?

  • Ps 89:47-48
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    72%

    47See how short my time is; why have you made all men for no purpose?

    48What man now living will not see death? will he be able to keep back his soul from the underworld? (Selah.)

  • Job 15:29-30
    2 verses
    72%

    29He does not get wealth for himself, and is unable to keep what he has got; the heads of his grain are not bent down to the earth.

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

  • Job 18:17
    72%

    17His memory is gone from the earth, and in the open country there is no knowledge of his name.

  • Job 17:11
    72%

    11My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the desires of my heart.

  • Job 33:22
    72%

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

  • Ps 49:19
    72%

    19He will go to the generation of his fathers; he will not see the light again.

  • Job 4:9
    72%

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

  • Ps 39:5-6
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    72%

    5You have made my days no longer than a hand's measure; and my years are nothing in your eyes; truly, every man is but a breath. (Selah.)

    6Truly, every man goes on his way like an image; he is troubled for no purpose: he makes a great store of wealth, and has no knowledge of who will get it.

  • Ps 146:5
    71%

    5Happy is the man who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God:

  • Job 20:7
    71%

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

  • 2 Sam 14:14
    71%

    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.

  • Ps 90:6
    71%

    6In the morning it is green; in the evening it is cut down, and becomes dry.

  • 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.

  • Job 14:5-6
    2 verses
    71%

    5If his days are ordered, and you have knowledge of the number of his months, having given him a fixed limit past which he may not go;

    6Let your eyes be turned away from him, and take your hand from him, so that he may have pleasure at the end of his day, like a servant working for payment.

  • Isa 40:7
    71%

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

  • Jas 4:14
    70%

    14When you are not certain what will take place tomorrow. What is your life? It is a mist, which is seen for a little time and then is gone.

  • Ps 49:10
    70%

    10For he sees that wise men come to their end, and foolish persons of low behaviour come to destruction together, letting their wealth go to others.

  • Job 27:19
    70%

    19He goes to rest full of wealth, but does so for the last time: on opening his eyes, he sees it there no longer.

  • Jas 1:11
    70%

    11For when the sun comes up with its burning heat, the grass gets dry and the grace of its form is gone with the falling flower; so the man of wealth comes to nothing in his ways.

  • Job 21:26
    70%

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

  • Eccl 6:4
    70%

    4In wind it came and to the dark it will go, and with the dark will its name be covered.

  • Job 8:12
    70%

    12When it is still green, without being cut down, it becomes dry and dead before any other plant.