Psalms 146:4

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Their life’s breath departs, they return to the ground; on that day their plans die.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 104:29 : 29 When you ignore them, they panic. When you take away their life’s breath, they die and return to dust.
  • 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.
  • Gen 2:7 : 7 The LORD God formed the man from the soil of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
  • 1 Cor 2:6 : 6 Wisdom from God Now we do speak wisdom among the mature, but not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are perishing.
  • 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.”
  • Gen 6:17 : 17 I am about to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy from under the sky all the living creatures that have the breath of life in them. Everything that is on the earth will die,
  • Job 14:21 : 21 If his sons are honored, he does not know it; if they are brought low, he does not see it.
  • Job 17:1 : 1 My spirit is broken, my days have faded out, the grave awaits me.
  • Job 17:11 : 11 My days have passed, my plans are shattered, even the desires of my heart.
  • Ps 33:10 : 10 The LORD frustrates the decisions of the nations; he nullifies the plans of the peoples.
  • Ps 90:3 : 3 You make mankind return to the dust, and say,“Return, O people!”
  • Isa 2:22 : 22 Stop trusting in human beings, whose life’s breath is in their nostrils. For why should they be given special consideration?
  • Lam 4:20 : 20 ר(Resh) Our very life breath– the LORD’s anointed king– was caught in their traps, of whom we thought,“Under his protection we will survive among the nations.”
  • Dan 5:23 : 23 Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. You brought before you the vessels from his temple, and you and your nobles, together with your wives and concubines, drank wine from them. You praised the gods of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone– gods that cannot see or hear or comprehend! But you have not glorified the God who has in his control your very breath and all your ways!
  • Job 27:3 : 3 for while my spirit is still in me, and the breath from God is in my nostrils,
  • Job 14:10 : 10 But man dies and is powerless; he expires– and where is he?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 34:14-15
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    14If God were to set his heart on it, and gather in his spirit and his breath,

    15all flesh would perish together and human beings would return to dust.

  • Ps 144:4
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    4People are like a vapor, their days like a shadow that disappears.

  • Eccl 12:7
    77%

    7and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the life’s breath returns to God who gave it.

  • Ps 104:29
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    29When you ignore them, they panic. When you take away their life’s breath, they die and return to dust.

  • Job 14:10-12
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    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.

  • Eccl 3:19-20
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    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.

  • Isa 2:22
    76%

    22Stop trusting in human beings, whose life’s breath is in their nostrils. For why should they be given special consideration?

  • Ps 146:3
    76%

    3Do not trust in princes, or in human beings, who cannot deliver!

  • Job 14:2
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    2He grows up like a flower and then withers away; he flees like a shadow, and does not remain.

  • Ps 103:15-16
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    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.

  • Job 7:9-10
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    74%

    9As a cloud is dispersed and then disappears, so the one who goes down to the grave does not come up again.

    10He returns no more to his house, nor does his place of residence know him any more.

  • Ps 49:12
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    12but, despite their wealth, people do not last, they are like animals that perish.

  • Ps 49:17
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    17For he will take nothing with him when he dies; his wealth will not follow him down into the grave.

  • Ps 90:3
    73%

    3You make mankind return to the dust, and say,“Return, O people!”

  • Job 17:1
    73%

    1My spirit is broken, my days have faded out, the grave awaits me.

  • Job 4:20-21
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    73%

    20They are destroyed between morning and evening; they perish forever without anyone regarding it.

    21Is not their excess wealth taken away from them? They die, yet without attaining wisdom.

  • Ps 89:47-48
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    72%

    47Take note of my brief lifespan! Why do you make all people so mortal?

    48No man can live on without experiencing death, or deliver his life from the power of Sheol.(Selah)

  • Job 15:29-30
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    29He will not grow rich, and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread over the land.

    30He will not escape the darkness; a flame will wither his shoots and he will depart by the breath of God’s mouth.

  • Job 18:17
    72%

    17His memory perishes from the earth, he has no name in the land.

  • Job 17:11
    72%

    11My days have passed, my plans are shattered, even the desires of my heart.

  • Job 33:22
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    22He draws near to the place of corruption, and his life to the messengers of death.

  • Ps 49:19
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    19But he will join his ancestors; they will never again see the light of day.

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

  • Ps 39:5-6
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    5Look, you make my days short-lived, and my life span is nothing from your perspective. Surely all people, even those who seem secure, are nothing but vapor.(Selah)

    6Surely people go through life as mere ghosts. Surely they accumulate worthless wealth without knowing who will eventually haul it away.”

  • Ps 146:5
    71%

    5How blessed is the one whose helper is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD his God,

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    7he will perish forever, like his own excrement; those who used to see him will say,‘Where is he?’

  • 2 Sam 14:14
    71%

    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.

  • Ps 90:6
    71%

    6in the morning it glistens and sprouts up; at evening time it withers and dries up.

  • Eccl 5:15-16
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    71%

    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?

  • Job 14:5-6
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    5Since man’s days are determined, the number of his months is under your control; you have set his limit and he cannot pass it.

    6Look away from him and let him desist, until he fulfills his time like a hired man.

  • Isa 40:7
    71%

    7The grass dries up, the flowers wither, when the wind sent by the LORD blows on them. Surely humanity is like grass.

  • Jas 4:14
    70%

    14You do not know about tomorrow. What is your life like? For you are a puff of smoke that appears for a short time and then vanishes.

  • Ps 49:10
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    10Surely one sees that even wise people die; fools and spiritually insensitive people all pass away and leave their wealth to others.

  • Job 27:19
    70%

    19He goes to bed wealthy, but will do so no more. When he opens his eyes, it is all gone.

  • Jas 1:11
    70%

    11For the sun rises with its heat and dries up the meadow; the petal of the flower falls off and its beauty is lost forever. So also the rich person in the midst of his pursuits will wither away.

  • Job 21:26
    70%

    26Together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover over them both.

  • Eccl 6:4
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    4Though the stillborn child came into the world for no reason and departed into darkness, though its name is shrouded in darkness,

  • Job 8:12
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    12While they are still beginning to flower and not ripe for cutting, they can wither away faster than any grass!