And I, lo I, will bring in an inundation of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life from underneath the heavens; all which is in the earth shall die.

And man will die and be weak: and man will expire, and where is he?

My spirit being destroyed my days were extinct; the graves are for me.

For all the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God in my nose;

And against the Lord of the heavens thou didst lift up thyself; and for the vessels of his house they brought before thee, and thou and thy nobles, and thy wives, and thy concubines, drinking wine in them; and to the gods of silver and gold, brass, iron, wood, and stone, who see not, and hear not, and know not, thou didst praise: and to the God whom thy breath in his hand, and all thy ways to him, thou didst not honor.

He returneth

Thou wilt turn man even to crushing, and thou wilt say, Turn back, ye sons of man.

In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat food until thy turning back to the earth; for out of it thou wert taken; for dust thou art, and to dust shalt thou turn back.

And the dust shall turn back to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall turn back to God who gave it.

His thoughts

His sons will be honored and he knew not: they will be brought low, and he will not understand for them.

My days passed away, my purposes were broken; the possessions of my heart

Cease to you from man of whom the breath is in his nose: for in what was he reckoned?

The spirit of our nostrils, the Messiah of Jehovah was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the nations.

But we speak wisdom among the perfected: and the wisdom not of this life, nor of the rulers of this life, they being left unemployed:

General references

In the death of an unjust man expectation shall perish: and the hope of the vain shall perish.