When (A)his breath departs, he returns to the earth;
    on that very day his plans perish.

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

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then the Lord God formed the man of (A)dust from the ground and (B)breathed into his (C)nostrils the breath of life, and (D)the man became a living creature.

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19 By the sweat of your face
    you shall eat bread,
till you return to the ground,
    for out of it you were taken;
(A)for you are dust,
    and (B)to dust you shall return.”

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Wisdom from the Spirit

Yet among (A)the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not (B)a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, (C)who are doomed to pass away.

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10 The Lord (A)brings the counsel of the nations to nothing;
    he frustrates the plans of the peoples.

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as long as my breath is in me,
    and (A)the spirit of God is in my nostrils,

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11 My (A)days are past; my plans are broken off,
    the desires of my heart.

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21 His sons come to honor, and he (A)does not know it;
    they are brought low, and he perceives it not.

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23 but you have lifted up yourself against (A)the Lord of heaven. And (B)the vessels of his house have been brought in before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines have drunk wine from them. (C)And you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see or hear or know, (D)but the God in whose hand is your breath, and (E)whose are all your ways, (F)you have not honored.

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20 (A)The breath of our nostrils, (B)the Lord's anointed,
    was captured (C)in their pits,
of whom we said, (D)“Under his shadow
    we shall live among the nations.”

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22 (A)Stop regarding man
    (B)in whose nostrils is breath,
    for of what account is he?

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You return man to dust
    and say, (A)“Return, (B)O children of man!”[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 90:3 Or of Adam

Job Continues: Where Then Is My Hope?

17 “My spirit is broken; my days are (A)extinct;
    (B)the graveyard is ready for me.

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10 But a man dies and is laid low;
    man breathes his last, and (A)where is he?

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17 (A)For behold, I will bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life under heaven. Everything that is on the earth shall die.

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