Psalm 90:3
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Psalm 104:29
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29 [a]When you hide your face, they panic.
Take away their breath, they perish
and return to the dust.(A)
Footnotes
- 104:29–30 On one level, the spirit (or wind) of God is the fall and winter rains that provide food for all creatures. On another, it is the breath (or spirit) of God that makes beings live.
1 Maccabees 2:63
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63 Today exalted, tomorrow not to be found,
they have returned to dust,
their schemes have perished.
Job 34:14-15
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14 If he were to set his mind to it,
gather to himself his spirit and breath,
15 All flesh would perish together,
and mortals return to dust.(A)
Ecclesiastes 3:20
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20 (A)Both go to the same place; both were made from the dust, and to the dust they both return.
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Ecclesiastes 12:7
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7 And the dust returns to the earth as it once was,
and the life breath returns to God who gave it.[a](A)
Ben Sira 40:11
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11 All that is of earth returns to earth,
and what is from above returns above.[a]
Footnotes
- 40:11 All that is of earth…returns above: a reference to bodily mortality and to the divine origin of life. Cf. 41:10; Gn 2:7; 3:19; Jb 34:14–15; Ps 104:29–30; 146:4; Eccl 12:7. The Greek and the Latin render the second half of the verse: “all waters shall return to the sea.”
Isaiah 2:22
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22 [a]As for you, stop worrying about mortals,
in whose nostrils is but a breath;
for of what worth are they?
Footnotes
- 2:22 The meaning of this verse, certainly a later addition, is not clear. It is not addressed to God but to a plural subject.
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