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.”
Psalm 90:3 - New Revised Standard Version You turn us back to dust, and say, “Turn back, you mortals.” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Thou turnest man to destruction; And sayest, Return, ye children of men. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition You turn man back to dust and corruption, and say, Return, O sons of the earthborn [to the earth]! American Standard Version (1901) Thou turnest man to destruction, And sayest, Return, ye children of men. Common English Bible You return people to dust, saying, “Go back, humans,” Catholic Public Domain Version For he has freed me from the snare of those who go hunting, and from the harsh word. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For he hath delivered me from the snare of the hunters: and from the sharp word. |
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.”
In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of every human being.
When you hide your face, they are dismayed; when you take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.
When their breath departs, they return to the earth; on that very day their plans perish.
and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the breath returns to God who gave it.
I the Lord have spoken; surely I will do thus to all this wicked congregation gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall come to a full end, and there they shall die.