Job 34:15
all flesh would perish together and mankind would return to the dust.
BSB
ASV
All flesh shall perish together, And man shall turn again unto dust.
KJV
All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust.
All flesh shall perish together,.... Not one by one, or one after another, as they generally do, but all together; as when the flood swept away the world of the ungodly.
All flesh shall perish together - If God chose, he would have a right to cut down the whole race. How then shall people complain of the loss of health, comforts, and friends, and presume to arraign God as if he were unjust?
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Genesis 3:19By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground—because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”
leads to
before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
When You hide Your face, they are terrified; when You take away their breath, they die and return to dust.
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Ecclesiastes 12:7before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
leads to
By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground—because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
And many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, but others to shame and everlasting contempt.
All go to one place; all come from dust, and all return to dust.
When his spirit departs, he returns to the ground; on that very day his plans perish.
If He were to set His heart to it and withdraw His Spirit and breath,