Psalms 146:4

When a man dies his breath leaves and his plans perish with him. Mortality exposes the frailty of all human schemes.

Cross-references · 16

• Eccl 12:7Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
• Ps 104:29Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.
• Gen 2:7And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
• Gen 3:19In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
• 1 Cor 2:6Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:
• Ps 33:10The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect.
• Job 17:11My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
• Isa 2:22Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?
• Job 27:3All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;
• Dan 5:23But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:
• Job 14:21His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.
• Job 14:10But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
• Job 17:1My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
• Lam 4:20The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.
• Ps 90:3Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
• Gen 6:17And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.

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