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14 For he knows how we are formed,
    remembers that we are dust.(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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Footnotes

  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.

    Who breathing his last, returns to the earth;
    that day all his planning comes to nothing.(A)

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19 By the sweat of your brow
    you shall eat bread,
Until you return to the ground,
    from which you were taken;
For you are dust,
    and to dust you shall return.(A)

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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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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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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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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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Footnotes

  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.

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

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Footnotes

  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.”