For behold, I will bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life under heaven. Everything that is on the earth shall die.

But a man dies and is laid low; man breathes his last, and where is he?

"My spirit is broken; my days are extinct; the graveyard is ready for me.

as long as my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils,

but you have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven. And the vessels of his house have been brought in 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 bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see or hear or know, but the God in whose hand is your breath, and whose are all your ways, you have not honored.

He returneth

You return man to dust and say, "Return, O children of man!"

By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return."

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

His thoughts

His sons come to honor, and he does not know it; they are brought low, and he perceives it not.

My days are past; my plans are broken off, the desires of my heart.

Stop regarding man in whose nostrils is breath, for of what account is he?

The breath of our nostrils, the LORD's anointed, was captured in their pits, of whom we said, "Under his shadow we shall live among the nations."

Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away.

General references

When the wicked dies, his hope will perish, and the expectation of wealth perishes too.