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 12:7and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
• Ps 104:29You hide your face: they are troubled; you take away their breath: they die, and return to the dust.
• Gen 2:7Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
• Gen 3:19By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
• 1 Cor 2:6We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown; yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nothing.
• Ps 33:10Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.
• Job 17:11My days are past, my plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart.
• Isa 2:22Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for of what account is he?
• Job 27:3(for the length of my life is still in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils);
• Dan 5:23but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house 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 brass, iron, wood, and stone, which don’t see, nor hear, nor know; and the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, you have not glorified.
• Job 14:21His sons come to honor, and he doesn’t know it. They are brought low, but he doesn’t perceive it of them.
• Job 14:10But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?
• Job 17:1“My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct, And the grave is ready for me.
• Lam 4:20The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of Yahweh, was taken in their pits; Of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the nations.
• Ps 90:3You turn man to destruction, saying, “Return, you children of men.”
• Gen 6:17I, even I, do bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die.

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