Then they fell on their faces, and said, "O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and You be angry with all the congregation?"

"And you have lifted yourself up against the Lord of heaven. They have brought the vessels of His house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your concubines, have drunk wine from them. And you have praised the gods of silver and gold, bronze and iron, wood and stone, which do not see or hear or know; and the God who [holds] your breath in His hand and owns all your ways, you have not glorified.

"Nor is He worshiped with men's hands, as though He needed anything, since He gives to all life, breath, and all things.

"for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, 'For we are also His offspring.'

As long as my breath [is] in me, And the breath of God in my nostrils,

If He should set His heart on it, [If] He should gather to Himself His Spirit and His breath,

All flesh would perish together, And man would return to dust.

And the LORD God formed man [of] the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.

"And behold, I Myself am bringing floodwaters on the earth, to destroy from under heaven all flesh in which [is] the breath of life; everything that [is] on the earth shall die.

You hide Your face, they are troubled; You take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.

Do not put your trust in princes, [Nor] in a son of man, in whom [there is] no help.

His spirit departs, he returns to his earth; In that very day his plans perish.

"That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.