Psalms 146:4

World English Bible (2000)

His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 104:29 : 29 You hide your face: they are troubled; you take away their breath: they die, and return to the dust.
  • Eccl 12:7 : 7 and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
  • Gen 2:7 : 7 Yahweh God formed man from 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 We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown; yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nothing.
  • Gen 3:19 : 19 By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return."
  • Gen 6:17 : 17 I, even I, do bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die.
  • Job 14:21 : 21 His sons come to honor, and he doesn't know it. They are brought low, but he doesn't perceive it of them.
  • Job 17:1 : 1 "My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct, And the grave is ready for me.
  • Job 17:11 : 11 My days are past, my plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart.
  • Ps 33:10 : 10 Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.
  • Ps 90:3 : 3 You turn man to destruction, saying, "Return, you children of men."
  • Isa 2:22 : 22 Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for of what account is he?
  • Lam 4:20 : 20 The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of Yahweh, was taken in their pits; Of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the nations.
  • Dan 5:23 : 23 but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your concubines, have drunk wine from them; and you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which don't see, nor hear, nor know; and the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, you have not glorified.
  • Job 27:3 : 3 (For the length of my life is still in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils);
  • Job 14:10 : 10 But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?

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  • Job 34:14-15
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    14 If he set his heart on himself, If he gathered to himself his spirit and his breath,

    15 all flesh would perish together, and man would turn again to dust.

  • 4 Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.

  • 7 and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

  • 29 You hide your face: they are troubled; you take away their breath: they die, and return to the dust.

  • Job 14:10-12
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    10 But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?

    11 As the waters fail from the sea, and the river wastes and dries up,

    12 so man lies down and doesn't rise. Until the heavens are no more, they shall not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.

  • Eccl 3:19-20
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    19 For that which happens to the sons of men happens to animals. Even one thing happens to them. As the one dies, so the other dies. Yes, they have all one breath; and man has no advantage over the animals: for all is vanity.

    20 All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.

  • 22 Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for of what account is he?

  • 3 Don't put your trust in princes, each a son of man in whom there is no help.

  • 2 He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn't continue.

  • Ps 103:15-16
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    15 As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.

    16 For the wind passes over it, and it is gone. Its place remembers it no more.

  • Job 7:9-10
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    9 As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol shall come up no more.

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

  • 12 But man, despite his riches, doesn't endure. He is like the animals that perish.

  • 17 For when he dies he shall carry nothing away. His glory shall not descend after him.

  • 3 You turn man to destruction, saying, "Return, you children of men."

  • 1 "My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct, And the grave is ready for me.

  • Job 4:20-21
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    20 Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.

    21 Isn't their tent cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.'

  • Ps 89:47-48
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    47 Remember how short my time is! For what vanity have you created all the children of men!

    48 What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.

  • Job 15:29-30
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    29 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.

    30 He shall not depart out of darkness. The flame shall dry up his branches. By the breath of God's mouth shall he go away.

  • 17 His memory shall perish from the earth. He shall have no name in the street.

  • 11 My days are past, my plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart.

  • 22 Yes, his soul draws near to the pit, and his life to the destroyers.

  • 19 he shall go to the generation of his fathers. They shall never see the light.

  • 9 By the breath of God they perish. By the blast of his anger are they consumed.

  • Ps 39:5-6
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    5 Behold, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath." Selah.

    6 "Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn't know who shall gather.

  • 5 Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in Yahweh, his God:

  • 7 yet he shall perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him shall say, 'Where is he?'

  • 14 For we must die, and are as water split on the ground, which can't be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him.

  • 6 In the morning it sprouts and springs up. By evening, it is withered and dry.

  • Eccl 5:15-16
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    15 As he came forth from his mother's womb, naked shall he go again as he came, and shall take nothing for his labor, which he may carry away in his hand.

    16 This also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go. And what profit does he have who labors for the wind?

  • Job 14:5-6
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    5 Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can't pass;

    6 Look away from him, that he may rest, until he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.

  • 7 The grass withers, the flower fades, because Yahweh's breath blows on it. Surely the people are like grass.

  • 14 Whereas you don't know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

  • 10 For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.

  • 19 He lies down rich, but he shall not do so again. He opens his eyes, and he is not.

  • 11 For the sun arises with the scorching wind, and withers the grass, and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in his pursuits.

  • 26 They lie down alike in the dust. The worm covers them.

  • 4 for it comes in vanity, and departs in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness.

  • 12 While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed.