Psalm 146:4

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

When his breath departs he returns to his earth; on that very day his plans perish.

Cross References

Genesis 2:7

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

Genesis 3:19

In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”

Genesis 6:17

For behold, I will bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life from under heaven; everything that is on the earth shall die.

Job 14:10

But man dies, and is laid low; man breathes his last, and where is he?

Job 14:21

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

Job 17:1

My spirit is broken, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me.

Job 17:11

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

Job 27:3

as long as my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;

Psalm 104:29

When thou hidest thy face, they are dismayed; when thou takest away their breath, they die and return to their dust.

Psalm 33:10

The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to naught; he frustrates the plans of the peoples.

Psalm 90:3

Thou turnest man back to the dust, and sayest, “Turn back, O children of men!”

Ecclesiastes 12:7

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Ecclesiastes 9:6

Their love and their hate and their envy have already perished, and they have no more for ever any share in all that is done under the sun.

Isaiah 2:22

Turn away from man in whose nostrils is breath, for of what account is he?

Lamentations 4:20

The breath of our nostrils, the Lord's anointed, was taken in their pits, he of whom we said, “Under his shadow we shall live among the nations.”

Daniel 5:23

but you have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and 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; and 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 hand is your breath, and whose are all your ways, you have not honored.

1 Corinthians 2:6

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