Psalm 146:4

Bible in Basic English 1965

Man's breath goes out, he is turned back again to dust; in that day all his purposes come to an end.

Cross References

Genesis 2:7

And the Lord God made man from the dust of the earth, breathing into him the breath of life: and man became a living soul.

Genesis 3:19

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.

Genesis 6:17

For truly, I will send a great flow of waters over the earth, for the destruction from under the heaven of all flesh in which is the breath of life; everything on the earth will come to an end.

Job 14:10

But man comes to his death and is gone: he gives up his spirit, and where is he?

Job 14:21

His sons come to honour, and he has no knowledge of it; they are made low, but he is not conscious of it.

Job 17:1

My spirit is broken, my days are ended, the last resting-place is ready for me.

Job 17:11

My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the desires of my heart.

Job 27:3

For all my breath is still in me, and the spirit of God is my life;

Psalm 104:29

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.

Psalm 33:10

The Lord undoes the designs of the nations; he makes the thoughts of the peoples without effect.

Psalm 90:3

You send man back to his dust; and say, Go back, you children of men.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

And the dust goes back to the earth as it was, and the spirit goes back to God who gave it.

Ecclesiastes 9:6

Their love and their hate and their envy are now ended; and they have no longer a part for ever in anything which is done under the sun.

Isaiah 2:22

Have no more to do with man, whose life is only a breath, for he is of no value.

Lamentations 4:20

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.

Daniel 5:23

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;

1 Corinthians 2:6

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: