Psalm 146:4
New Living Translation
4 When they breathe their last, they return to the earth,
and all their plans die with them.
Ecclesiastes 12:7
New Living Translation
7 For then the dust will return to the earth, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.
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Psalm 104:29
New Living Translation
29 But if you turn away from them, they panic.
When you take away their breath,
they die and turn again to dust.
Genesis 2:7
New Living Translation
7 Then the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground. He breathed the breath of life into the man’s nostrils, and the man became a living person.
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1 Corinthians 2:6
New Living Translation
6 Yet when I am among mature believers, I do speak with words of wisdom, but not the kind of wisdom that belongs to this world or to the rulers of this world, who are soon forgotten.
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Genesis 3:19
New Living Translation
19 By the sweat of your brow
will you have food to eat
until you return to the ground
from which you were made.
For you were made from dust,
and to dust you will return.”
Psalm 33:10
New Living Translation
10 The Lord frustrates the plans of the nations
and thwarts all their schemes.
Job 17:11
New Living Translation
11 My days are over.
My hopes have disappeared.
My heart’s desires are broken.
Job 17:1
New Living Translation
Job Continues to Defend His Innocence
17 “My spirit is crushed,
and my life is nearly snuffed out.
The grave is ready to receive me.
Job 14:21
New Living Translation
21 They never know if their children grow up in honor
or sink to insignificance.
Genesis 6:17
New Living Translation
17 “Look! I am about to cover the earth with a flood that will destroy every living thing that breathes. Everything on earth will die.
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Daniel 5:23
New Living Translation
23 For you have proudly defied the Lord of heaven and have had these cups from his Temple brought before you. You and your nobles and your wives and concubines have been drinking wine from them while praising gods of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone—gods that neither see nor hear nor know anything at all. But you have not honored the God who gives you the breath of life and controls your destiny!
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Lamentations 4:20
New Living Translation
20 Our king—the Lord’s anointed, the very life of our nation—
was caught in their snares.
We had thought that his shadow
would protect us against any nation on earth!
Isaiah 2:22
New Living Translation
22 Don’t put your trust in mere humans.
They are as frail as breath.
What good are they?
Psalm 90:3
New Living Translation
3 You turn people back to dust, saying,
“Return to dust, you mortals!”
Job 27:3
New Living Translation
3 As long as I live,
while I have breath from God,
Job 14:10
New Living Translation
10 “But when people die, their strength is gone.
They breathe their last, and then where are they?
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