Psalm 146:4

New International Version

When their spirit departs, they return to the ground; on that very day their plans come to nothing.

Cross References

Genesis 2:7

Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

Genesis 3:19

By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.”

Genesis 6:17

I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish.

Job 14:10

But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last and is no more.

Job 14:21

If their children are honored, they do not know it; if their offspring are brought low, they do not see it.

Job 17:1

My spirit is broken, my days are cut short, the grave awaits me.

Job 17:11

My days have passed, my plans are shattered. Yet the desires of my heart

Job 27:3

as long as I have life within me, the breath of God in my nostrils,

Psalm 104:29

When you hide your face, they are terrified; when you take away their breath, they die and return to the dust.

Psalm 33:10

The Lord foils the plans of the nations; he thwarts the purposes of the peoples.

Psalm 90:3

You turn people back to dust, saying, “Return to dust, you mortals.”

Ecclesiastes 12:7

and the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Ecclesiastes 9:6

Their love, their hate and their jealousy have long since vanished; never again will they have a part in anything that happens under the sun.

Isaiah 2:22

Stop trusting in mere humans, who have but a breath in their nostrils. Why hold them in esteem?

Lamentations 4:20

The Lord’s anointed, our very life breath, was caught in their traps. We thought that under his shadow we would live among the nations.

Daniel 5:23

Instead, you have set yourself up against the Lord of heaven. You had the goblets from his temple brought to you, and you and your nobles, your wives and your concubines drank wine from them. You praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or understand. But you did not honor the God who holds in his hand your life and all your ways.

1 Corinthians 2:6

We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.