Psalms 146:4

Authorized King James Version (1611)

His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 104:29 : 29 Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.
  • Eccl 12:7 : 7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
  • Gen 2:7 : 7 And the LORD God formed man [of] the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
  • 1 Cor 2:6 : 6 ¶ Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:
  • Gen 3:19 : 19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou [art], and unto dust shalt thou return.
  • Gen 6:17 : 17 And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein [is] the breath of life, from under heaven; [and] every thing that [is] in the earth shall die.
  • Job 14:21 : 21 His sons come to honour, and he knoweth [it] not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth [it] not of them.
  • Job 17:1 : 1 ¶ My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves [are ready] for me.
  • Job 17:11 : 11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, [even] the thoughts of my heart.
  • Ps 33:10 : 10 The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect.
  • Ps 90:3 : 3 Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
  • Isa 2:22 : 22 Cease ye from man, whose breath [is] in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?
  • Lam 4:20 : 20 The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.
  • Dan 5:23 : 23 But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath [is], and whose [are] all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:
  • Job 27:3 : 3 All the while my breath [is] in me, and the spirit of God [is] in my nostrils;
  • Job 14:10 : 10 But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where [is] he?

Similar Verses (AI)

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    14If he set his heart upon man, [if] he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath;

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    4Man is like to vanity: his days [are] as a shadow that passeth away.

  • Eccl 12:7
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    7Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

  • Ps 104:29
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    29Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.

  • Job 14:10-12
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    76%

    10But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where [is] he?

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  • Eccl 3:19-20
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    19For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all [is] vanity.

    20All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.

  • Isa 2:22
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    22Cease ye from man, whose breath [is] in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?

  • Ps 146:3
    76%

    3Put not your trust in princes, [nor] in the son of man, in whom [there is] no help.

  • Job 14:2
    75%

    2He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

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    75%

    15[As for] man, his days [are] as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.

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  • Job 7:9-10
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    74%

    9[As] the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no [more].

    10He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.

  • Ps 49:12
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    12Nevertheless man [being] in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts [that] perish.

  • Ps 49:17
    74%

    17For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him.

  • Ps 90:3
    73%

    3Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.

  • Job 17:1
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    1¶ My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves [are ready] for me.

  • Job 4:20-21
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    20They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding [it].

    21Doth not their excellency [which is] in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.

  • Ps 89:47-48
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    72%

    47Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?

    48What man [is he that] liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.

  • Job 15:29-30
    2 verses
    72%

    29He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.

    30He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.

  • Job 18:17
    72%

    17His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.

  • Job 17:11
    72%

    11My days are past, my purposes are broken off, [even] the thoughts of my heart.

  • Job 33:22
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    22Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers.

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    19He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.

  • Job 4:9
    72%

    9By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.

  • Ps 39:5-6
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    71%

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    7[Yet] he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where [is] he?

  • 2 Sam 14:14
    71%

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    71%

    6In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.

  • Eccl 5:15-16
    2 verses
    71%

    15As he came forth of his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand.

    16And this also [is] a sore evil, [that] in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?

  • Job 14:5-6
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    71%

    5Seeing his days [are] determined, the number of his months [are] with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;

    6Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.

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    71%

    7The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people [is] grass.

  • Jas 4:14
    70%

    14Whereas ye know not what [shall be] on the morrow. For what [is] your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

  • Ps 49:10
    70%

    10For he seeth [that] wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.

  • Job 27:19
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    19The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he openeth his eyes, and he [is] not.

  • Jas 1:11
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    11For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

  • Job 21:26
    70%

    26They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.

  • Eccl 6:4
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    4For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.

  • Job 8:12
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    12Whilst it [is] yet in his greenness, [and] not cut down, it withereth before any [other] herb.