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You turn humanity back into dust,[a]
    saying, “Return, you children of Adam!”(A)

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  1. 90:3 Dust: one word of God is enough to return mortals to the dust from which they were created. Human beings were created from earth in Gn 2:7; 3:19.

You turn people back to dust,
    saying, “Return to dust, you mortals.”(A)

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29 [a]When you hide your face, they panic.
    Take away their breath, they perish
    and return to the dust.(A)

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  1. 104:29–30 On one level, the spirit (or wind) of God is the fall and winter rains that provide food for all creatures. On another, it is the breath (or spirit) of God that makes beings live.

29 When you hide your face,(A)
    they are terrified;
when you take away their breath,
    they die and return to the dust.(B)

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63 Today exalted, tomorrow not to be found,
    they have returned to dust,
    their schemes have perished.

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'1 Maccabees 2:63' not found for the version: New International Version.

14 If he were to set his mind to it,
    gather to himself his spirit and breath,
15 All flesh would perish together,
    and mortals return to dust.(A)

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14 If it were his intention
    and he withdrew his spirit[a](A) and breath,(B)
15 all humanity would perish(C) together
    and mankind would return to the dust.(D)

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  1. Job 34:14 Or Spirit

20 (A)Both go to the same place; both were made from the dust, and to the dust they both return.

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20 All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return.(A)

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And the dust returns to the earth as it once was,
    and the life breath returns to God who gave it.[a](A)

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  1. 12:7 Death is portrayed in terms of the description of creation in Gn 2:7; the body corrupts in the grave, and the life breath (lit., “spirit”), or gift of life, returns to God who had breathed upon what he had formed.

and the dust returns(A) to the ground it came from,
    and the spirit returns to God(B) who gave it.(C)

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11 All that is of earth returns to earth,
    and what is from above returns above.[a]

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  1. 40:11 All that is of earth…returns above: a reference to bodily mortality and to the divine origin of life. Cf. 41:10; Gn 2:7; 3:19; Jb 34:14–15; Ps 104:29–30; 146:4; Eccl 12:7. The Greek and the Latin render the second half of the verse: “all waters shall return to the sea.”
'Sirach 40:11' not found for the version: New International Version.

22 [a]As for you, stop worrying about mortals,
    in whose nostrils is but a breath;
    for of what worth are they?

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  1. 2:22 The meaning of this verse, certainly a later addition, is not clear. It is not addressed to God but to a plural subject.

22 Stop trusting in mere humans,(A)
    who have but a breath(B) in their nostrils.
    Why hold them in esteem?(C)

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