Then the Lord God formed the man out of the dust from the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.

“Understand that I am bringing a flood—floodwaters on the earth to destroy every creature under heaven with the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will die.

But a man dies and fades away;
he breathes his last—where is he?

My spirit is broken.
My days are extinguished.
A graveyard awaits me.

as long as my breath is still in me
and the breath from God remains in my nostrils,

Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. The vessels from His house were brought to you, and as you and your nobles, wives, and concubines drank wine from them, you praised the gods made of silver and gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see or hear or understand. But you have not glorified the God who holds your life-breath in His hand and who controls the whole course of your life.

He returneth

You return mankind to the dust,
saying, “Return, descendants of Adam.”

You will eat bread by the sweat of your brow
until you return to the ground,
since you were taken from it.
For you are dust,
and you will return to dust.”

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

His thoughts

If his sons receive honor, he does not know it;
if they become insignificant, he is unaware of it.

My days have slipped by;
my plans have been ruined,
even the things dear to my heart.

Put no more trust in man,
who has only the breath in his nostrils.
What is he really worth?

ר ReshThe Lord’s anointed, the breath of our life,

was captured in their traps.
We had said about him,
“We will live under his protection among the nations.”

However, we do speak a wisdom among the mature, but not a wisdom of this age, or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.

General references

When the wicked man dies,
his expectation comes to nothing,
and hope placed in wealth

vanishes.