then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
Psalm 146:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 When their breath departs, they return to the earth; on that very day their plans perish. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; In that very day his thoughts perish. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition When his breath leaves him, he returns to his earth; in that very day his [previous] thoughts, plans, and purposes perish. [I Cor. 2:6.] American Standard Version (1901) His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; In that very day his thoughts perish. Common English Bible Their breath leaves them, then they go back to the ground. On that very same day, their plans die too. Catholic Public Domain Version He numbers the multitude of the stars, and he calls them all by their names. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Who telleth the number of the stars: and calleth them all by their names. |
then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
For my part, I am going to bring a flood of waters on the earth, to destroy from under heaven all flesh in which is the breath of life; everything that is on the earth shall die.
Their children come to honor, and they do not know it; they are brought low, and it goes unnoticed.
When you hide your face, they are dismayed; when you take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.
The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; he frustrates the plans of the peoples.
and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the breath returns to God who gave it.
Their love and their hate and their envy have already perished; never again will they have any share in all that happens under the sun.
[[Turn away from mortals, who have only breath in their nostrils, for of what account are they?]]
The Lord’s anointed, the breath of our life, was taken in their pits— the one of whom we said, “Under his shadow we shall live among the nations.”
You have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven! The vessels of his temple have been brought in before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines have been drinking wine from them. You have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see or hear or know, but the God in whose power is your very breath and to whom belong all your ways, you have not honored.
Yet among the mature we do speak wisdom, though it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are being destroyed.