4 Man's breath goes out, he is turned back again to dust; in that day all his purposes come to an end.
If your face is veiled, they are troubled; when you take away their breath, they come to an end, and go back to the dust.
And the dust goes back to the earth as it was, and the spirit goes back to God who gave it.
But still we have wisdom for those who are complete in knowledge, though not the wisdom of this world, and not of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nothing:
With the hard work of your hands you will get your bread till you go back to the earth from which you were taken: for dust you are and to the dust you will go back.
His sons come to honour, and he has no knowledge of it; they are made low, but he is not conscious of it.
My spirit is broken, my days are ended, the last resting-place is ready for me.
The Lord undoes the designs of the nations; he makes the thoughts of the peoples without effect.
You send man back to his dust; and say, Go back, you children of men.
Our breath of life, he on whom the holy oil was put, was taken in their holes; of whom we said, Under his shade we will be living among the nations.
But you have been lifting yourself up against the Lord of heaven, and they have put the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your women, have taken wine in them; and you have given praise to gods of silver and gold, of brass and iron and wood and stone, who are without the power of seeing or hearing, and without knowledge: and to the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, you have not given glory;
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PSALM 146
Ps 146:1-10. An exhortation to praise God, who, by the gracious and faithful exercise of His power in goodness to the needy, is alone worthy of implicit trust.