Verse 4

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

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?