Job 34:15
all flesh would perish together and human beings would return to dust.
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- Gen 3:19 : 19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat food until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you will return.”
- Eccl 12:7 : 7 and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the life’s breath returns to God who gave it.
- Isa 57:16 : 16 For I will not be hostile forever or perpetually angry, for then man’s spirit would grow faint before me, the life-giving breath I created.
- Isa 27:4 : 4 I am not angry. I wish I could confront some thorns and briers! Then I would march against them for battle; I would set them all on fire,
- Job 9:22 : 22 Accusation of God’s Justice“It is all one! That is why I say,‘He destroys the blameless and the guilty.’
- Job 10:9 : 9 Remember that you have made me as with the clay; will you return me to dust?
- Job 30:23 : 23 I know that you are bringing me to death, to the meeting place for all the living.
- Ps 90:3-9 : 3 You make mankind return to the dust, and say,“Return, O people!” 4 Yes, in your eyes a thousand years are like yesterday that quickly passes, or like one of the divisions of the nighttime. 5 You bring their lives to an end and they“fall asleep.” In the morning they are like the grass that sprouts up; 6 in the morning it glistens and sprouts up; at evening time it withers and dries up. 7 Yes, we are consumed by your anger; we are terrified by your wrath. 8 You are aware of our sins; you even know about our hidden sins. 9 Yes, throughout all our days we experience your raging fury; the years of our lives pass quickly, like a sigh. 10 The days of our lives add up to seventy years, or eighty, if one is especially strong. But even one’s best years are marred by trouble and oppression. Yes, they pass quickly and we fly away.
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- Eccl 3:19-213 verses85%
19For the fate of humans and the fate of animals are the same: As one dies, so dies the other; both have the same breath. There is no advantage for humans over animals, for both are fleeting.
20Both go to the same place, both come from the dust, and to dust both return.
21Who really knows if the human spirit ascends upward, and the animal’s spirit descends into the earth?
- Eccl 12:7-82 verses81%
7and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the life’s breath returns to God who gave it.
8Concluding Refrain: Qoheleth Restates His Thesis“Absolutely futile!” laments the Teacher,“All of these things are futile!”
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4Their life’s breath departs, they return to the ground; on that day their plans die.
- Job 14:10-123 verses79%
10But man dies and is powerless; he expires– and where is he?
11As water disappears from the sea, or a river drains away and dries up,
12so man lies down and does not rise; until the heavens are no more, they will not awake nor arise from their sleep.
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14If God were to set his heart on it, and gather in his spirit and his breath,
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29When you ignore them, they panic. When you take away their life’s breath, they die and return to dust.
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16God Is Impartial and Omniscient“If you have understanding, listen to this, hear what I have to say.
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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,
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4People are like a vapor, their days like a shadow that disappears.
- Ps 103:14-163 verses76%
14For he knows what we are made of; he realizes we are made of clay.
15A person’s life is like grass. Like a flower in the field it flourishes,
16but when the hot wind blows by, it disappears, and one can no longer even spot the place where it once grew.
- Gen 7:21-222 verses75%
21And all living things that moved on the earth died, including the birds, domestic animals, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all humankind.
22Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.
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26Together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover over them both.
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3You make mankind return to the dust, and say,“Return, O people!”
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22Stop trusting in human beings, whose life’s breath is in their nostrils. For why should they be given special consideration?
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12but, despite their wealth, people do not last, they are like animals that perish.
- Isa 40:6-72 verses74%
6A voice says,“Cry out!” Another asks,“What should I cry out?” The first voice responds:“All people are like grass, and all their promises are like the flowers in the field.
7The grass dries up, the flowers wither, when the wind sent by the LORD blows on them. Surely humanity is like grass.
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19By the sweat of your brow you will eat food until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you will return.”
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2He grows up like a flower and then withers away; he flees like a shadow, and does not remain.
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39He remembered that they were made of flesh, and were like a wind that blows past and does not return.
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11And at the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are wasted away.
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29All of the thriving people of the earth will join the celebration and worship; all those who are descending into the grave will bow before him, including those who cannot preserve their lives.
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22He draws near to the place of corruption, and his life to the messengers of death.
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30He will not escape the darkness; a flame will wither his shoots and he will depart by the breath of God’s mouth.
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1My spirit is broken, my days have faded out, the grave awaits me.
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9By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they are consumed.
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39All flesh is not the same: People have one flesh, animals have another, birds and fish another.
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14If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait until my release comes.
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11They will perish, but you continue. And they will all grow old like a garment,
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12Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.
- Job 4:19-202 verses71%
19how much more to those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth?
20They are destroyed between morning and evening; they perish forever without anyone regarding it.
- Eccl 5:15-162 verses71%
15Just as he came forth from his mother’s womb, naked will he return as he came, and he will take nothing in his hand that he may carry away from his toil.
16This is another misfortune: Just as he came, so will he go. What did he gain from toiling for the wind?
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14Certainly we must die, and are like water spilled on the ground that cannot be gathered up again. But God does not take away life; instead he devises ways for the banished to be restored.
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38when the dust hardens into a mass, and the clumps of earth stick together?
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11His bones were full of his youthful vigor, but that vigor will lie down with him in the dust.
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13when you turn your rage against God and allow such words to escape from your mouth?
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7he will perish forever, like his own excrement; those who used to see him will say,‘Where is he?’
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3Therefore the land will mourn, and all its inhabitants will perish. The wild animals, the birds of the sky, and even the fish in the sea will perish.
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33The clods of the torrent valley are sweet to him; behind him everybody follows in procession, and before him goes a countless throng.
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26They will perish, but you will endure. They will wear out like a garment; like clothes you will remove them and they will disappear.