You turn man to destruction,
And say, (A)“Return, O children of men.”

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You turn people back to dust,
    saying, “Return to dust, you mortals.”(A)

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19 (A)In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread
Till you return to the ground,
For out of it you were taken;
(B)For dust you are,
And (C)to dust you shall return.”

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19 By the sweat of your brow(A)
    you will eat your food(B)
until you return to the ground,
    since from it you were taken;
for dust you are
    and to dust you will return.”(C)

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(A)Then the dust will return to the earth as it was,
(B)And the spirit will return to God (C)who gave it.

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and the dust returns(A) to the ground it came from,
    and the spirit returns to God(B) who gave it.(C)

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(A)His spirit departs, he returns to his earth;
In that very day (B)his plans perish.

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When their spirit departs, they return to the ground;(A)
    on that very day their plans come to nothing.(B)

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29 You hide Your face, they are troubled;
(A)You take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.

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29 When you hide your face,(A)
    they are terrified;
when you take away their breath,
    they die and return to the dust.(B)

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14 If He should set His heart on it,
If He should (A)gather to Himself His Spirit and His breath,
15 (B)All flesh would perish together,
And man would return to dust.

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14 If it were his intention
    and he withdrew his spirit[a](A) and breath,(B)
15 all humanity would perish(C) together
    and mankind would return to the dust.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 34:14 Or Spirit

10 (A)In whose hand is the [a]life of every living thing,
And the (B)breath of [b]all mankind?

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Footnotes

  1. Job 12:10 Or soul
  2. Job 12:10 Lit. all flesh of men

10 In his hand is the life(A) of every creature
    and the breath of all mankind.(B)

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35 (A)I the Lord have spoken this. I will surely do so to all (B)this evil congregation who are gathered together against Me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.’ ”

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35 I, the Lord, have spoken, and I will surely do these things(A) to this whole wicked community, which has banded together against me. They will meet their end in this wilderness; here they will die.(B)

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And (A)the Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and (B)He was grieved in His (C)heart. So the Lord said, “I will (D)destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them.”

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The Lord regretted(A) that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled. So the Lord said, “I will wipe from the face of the earth(B) the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground—for I regret that I have made them.(C)

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