Psalm 146:4

Free Bible Version

Once they breathe no more, they go back to dust. On that very day everything they planned dies with them.

Cross References

Genesis 2:7

The Lord God shaped the man Adam from the dust of the ground. He breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and Adam became a living being.

Genesis 3:19

You will have to sweat to grow enough food to eat until you die and return to the ground. For you were made from dust and you will return to dust.”

Genesis 6:17

I myself am going to flood the earth with water that will destroy everything that breathes. Every living thing everywhere on earth will die.

Job 14:10

But human beings die, their strength dwindles away; they perish, and where are they then?

Job 14:21

Their children may become important or fall from their positions, but they don't know or see any of this.

Job 17:1

“My spirit is crushed; my life is extinguished; the grave is ready for me.

Job 17:11

My life is over. My plans are gone. My heart is broken.

Job 27:3

for as long as I have life, while the breath of God remains in my nostrils—

Psalm 104:29

When you turn away from them, they're terrified; when you take away their breath, they die and return to dust.

Psalm 33:10

The Lord foils the decisions of the nations, he frustrates the plans of the peoples,

Psalm 90:3

You turn people back into dust, saying, “Return to dust, human beings.”

Ecclesiastes 12:7

Then the dust returns to the earth from which it came, and the breath of life returns to God who gave it.

Ecclesiastes 9:6

Their love, hate, and envy—it's all gone. They have no further part in anything that happens here on earth.

Isaiah 2:22

Don't bother trusting human beings who only live for a while. How much do they count?

Lamentations 4:20

The king, the Lord's anointed, our country's “life-breath,” was trapped and captured by them. We had said about him, “Under his protection we will live among the nations.”

Daniel 5:23

You have arrogantly defied the Lord of heaven and you had the cups and bowls of his Temple brought to you. You and your nobles, your wives and concubines, drank wine from them as you praised gods made of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone that can't see or hear or know anything. But you have not honored God who holds in his hand your very breath and everything you do.

1 Corinthians 2:6

However, we do use words of wisdom when we speak to those who are spiritually mature, but this isn't wisdom that comes from this world, or from the rulers of this world who soon fade from the scene.