LORD, by Your favor You have made my mountain stand strong; You hid Your face, [and] I was troubled.

Why do You hide Your face, And regard me as Your enemy?

When He gives quietness, who then can make trouble? And when He hides [His] face, who then can see Him, Whether [it is] against a nation or a man alone? --

For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected [it] in hope;

For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now.

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

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.

Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, And the spirit will return to God who gave it.

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

You turn man to destruction, And say, "Return, O children of men."

In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread Till you return to the ground, For out of it you were taken; For dust you [are,] And to dust you shall return."