And I, behold, I do bring the flood of waters upon this earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; everything that is in the earth shall die.

But man dieth, and is laid low: Yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?

My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, The grave is ready for me.

(For my life is yet whole in me, And the spirit of God is in my nostrils);

but 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 from 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.

He returneth

Thou turnest man to destruction, And sayest, Return, ye children of men.

in 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.

and the dust returneth to the earth as it was, and the spirit returneth unto God who gave it.

His thoughts

His sons come to honor, and he knoweth it not; And they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.

My days are past, my purposes are broken off, Even the thoughts of my heart.

Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for wherein is he to be accounted of?

The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of Jehovah, was taken in their pits; Of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the nations.

We speak wisdom, however, among them that are fullgrown: yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nought:

General references

When a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall perish; And the hope of iniquity perisheth.