Job 34:15

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all flesh would perish together, and mankind would return to dust.

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  • 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.
  • Eccl 12:7 : 7 And the dust returns to the earth as it once was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
  • Isa 57:16 : 16 I will not accuse forever, nor will I always be angry, for then the spirit would faint before me—the breath of life that I created.
  • Isa 27:4 : 4 I am not angry. If only there were briers and thorns confronting me, I would march against them in battle and completely burn them together.
  • Job 9:22 : 22 It makes no difference; therefore, I declare: He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.
  • Job 10:9 : 9 Remember, You fashioned me from clay; will You now return me to dust?
  • Job 30:23 : 23 I know You will bring me back to death, to the house appointed for all the living.
  • Ps 90:3-9 : 3 You turn humankind back to dust, saying, 'Return, O children of man.' 4 For a thousand years in your sight are like yesterday when it passes, or like a watch in the night. 5 You sweep them away like a flood; they are like a dream, like grass that springs up in the morning— 6 In the morning it flourishes and grows, but by evening it withers and dries up. 7 We are consumed by your anger, and terrified by your wrath. 8 You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence. 9 All our days pass away under your wrath; we finish our years with a sigh. 10 The span of our life is seventy years—or eighty, if we have strength; yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.

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  • Eccl 3:19-21
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    19For the fate of humans and the fate of animals is the same. As one dies, so dies the other; they all have the same breath, and humans have no advantage over animals, for everything is meaningless.

    20All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return.

    21Who knows if the spirit of man rises upward and if the spirit of the animal goes down to the earth?

  • Eccl 12:7-8
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    7And the dust returns to the earth as it once was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

    8'Utter futility,' says the Teacher. 'Everything is futile!'

  • Ps 146:4
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    4When their breath departs, they return to the earth; on that very day their plans perish.

  • Job 14:10-12
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    79%

    10But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last and where is he?

    11As the waters of a lake dry up or a riverbed becomes parched and dry,

    12so man lies down and does not rise; till the heavens are no more, people will not awake or be roused from their sleep.

  • Job 34:14
    78%

    14If He were to set His heart to it and gather to Himself His spirit and breath,

  • Ps 104:29
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    29When You hide Your face, they are terrified; when You take away their breath, they die and return to the dust.

  • Job 34:16
    77%

    16If you have understanding, listen to this; pay attention to the sound of my words.

  • 1 Pet 1:24
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    24For, "All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls off,

  • Ps 144:4
    76%

    4Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.

  • Ps 103:14-16
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    76%

    14For He knows how we are formed; He remembers that we are dust.

    15As for man, his days are like grass, he blooms like a flower of the field.

    16The wind blows over it, and it is gone, and its place remembers it no more.

  • Gen 7:21-22
    2 verses
    75%

    21Every living creature that moved on the earth perished—birds, livestock, wild animals, all creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind.

    22Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.

  • Job 21:26
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    26They lie down together in the dust, and worms cover them.

  • Ps 90:3
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    3You turn humankind back to dust, saying, 'Return, O children of man.'

  • Isa 2:22
    74%

    22Stop trusting in man, who has but a breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?

  • Ps 49:12
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    12Their inward thought is that their houses will last forever, and their dwelling places for all generations; they call their lands by their own names.

  • Isa 40:6-7
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    74%

    6A voice says, 'Cry out.' And I said, 'What shall I cry?' All people are like grass, and all their faithfulness is like the flowers of the field.

    7The grass withers and the flowers fall, because the breath of the Lord blows on them. Surely the people are like grass.

  • Gen 3:19
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    19By 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.

  • Job 14:2
    73%

    2He springs up like a flower and withers away; he flees like a shadow and does not endure.

  • Ps 78:39
    72%

    39He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.

  • Prov 5:11
    72%

    11At the end of your life you will groan, when your flesh and body are spent.

  • Ps 22:29
    72%

    29for the kingdom belongs to the LORD, and he rules over the nations.

  • Job 33:22
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    22Their soul draws near to the pit, and their life to the messengers of death.

  • Job 15:30
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    30He will not escape from darkness; a flame will dry up his branch, and the breath of God's mouth will carry him away.

  • Job 17:1
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    1My spirit is broken, my days have faded away, and the grave is ready for me.

  • Job 4:9
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    9By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of His anger they are consumed.

  • 1 Cor 15:39
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    39Not all flesh is the same: humans have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds have another, and fish have another.

  • Job 14:14
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    14If someone dies, will they live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait for my renewal to come.

  • Heb 1:11
    71%

    11'They will perish, but You remain; they will all wear out like a garment.'

  • Job 13:12
    71%

    12Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.

  • Job 4:19-20
    2 verses
    71%

    19How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!

    20From morning to evening they are broken to pieces; without anyone noticing, they perish forever.

  • Eccl 5:15-16
    2 verses
    71%

    15This too is a grievous evil: As a man comes, so he departs, and what does he gain from all his labor for the wind?

    16Throughout his days, he eats in darkness, with great frustration, sickness, and anger.

  • 2 Sam 14:14
    71%

    14We must all die; we are like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. Yet God does not take away life, but devises ways so that a banished person may not remain estranged from Him.

  • Job 38:38
    71%

    38when the dust becomes hard as metal and the clods of earth stick together?

  • Job 20:11
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    11The youthful vigor that filled his bones will lie down with him in the dust.

  • Job 15:13
    70%

    13That you turn your spirit against God and let words escape from your mouth?

  • Job 20:7
    70%

    7he will perish forever like his own waste; those who have seen him will say, 'Where is he?'

  • Hos 4:3
    70%

    3Therefore the land mourns, and all who live in it languish, along with the beasts of the field, the birds of the skies, and even the fish of the sea are taken away.

  • Job 21:33
    70%

    33The clods of the valley are sweet to him; everyone follows after him, and countless go before him.

  • Ps 102:26
    70%

    26Long ago you laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands.