Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.

Bible References

Hidest

Psalm 30:7
O Lord, in your good favor you made me secure. Then you rejected me and I was terrified.
Job 13:24
Why do you hide your face and regard me as your enemy?
Job 34:29
But if God is quiet, who can condemn him? If he hides his face, then who can see him? Yet he is over the individual and the nation alike,
Romans 8:20
For the creation was subjected to futility -- not willingly but because of God who subjected it -- in hope

Thou takest

Psalm 146:4
Their life's breath departs, they return to the ground; on that day their plans die.
Job 34:14
If God were to set his heart on it, and gather in his spirit and his breath,
Ecclesiastes 12:7
and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the life's breath returns to God who gave it.
Acts 17:25
nor is he served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives life and breath and everything to everyone.

Return

Psalm 90:3
You make mankind return to the dust, and say, "Return, O people!"
Genesis 3:19
By the sweat of your brow you will eat food until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you will return."

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