When you turn away, they are afraid; when you take away your breath, they die and go back to the dust from which they came.

When they die, they return to the dust; on that day all their plans come to an end.

You will have to work hard and sweat to make the soil produce anything, until you go back to the soil from which you were formed. You were made from soil, and you will become soil again."

he was sorry that he had ever made them and put them on the earth. He was so filled with regret

that he said, "I will wipe out these people I have created, and also the animals and the birds, because I am sorry that I made any of them."

I swear that I will do this to you wicked people who have gathered together against me. Here in the wilderness every one of you will die. I, the LORD, have spoken.' "

It is God who directs the lives of his creatures; everyone's life is in his power.

If God took back the breath of life,

then everyone living would die and turn into dust again.

Our bodies will return to the dust of the earth, and the breath of life will go back to God, who gave it to us.