Job 34:15

Elihu Asserts God's Justice

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“If God should determine to do so,
If He should gather to Himself [that is, withdraw from man] His [life-giving] spirit and His breath,
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All flesh would perish together,
And man would return to dust. ¹⁶
“If you now have understanding, hear this;
Listen to the sound of my words.

All Return to Dust

Return to Dust

Turn Again Unto Dust

Job

Genesis 3:19

“By the sweat of your face
You will eat bread
Until you return to the ground,
For from it you were taken;
For you are dust,
And to dust you shall return.”

Job 9:22

“It is all one; therefore I say,
‘He destroys [both] the blameless and the wicked.’

Job 10:9

‘Remember now, that You have made me as clay;
So will You turn me into dust again?

Job 30:23

“For I know that You will bring me to death
And to the house of meeting [appointed] for all the living.

Psalm 90:3-10

You turn man back to dust,
And say, “Return [to the earth], O children of [mortal] men!”

Ecclesiastes 12:7

then the dust [out of which God made man’s body] will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.

Isaiah 27:4

“I have no wrath.
Should anyone give Me briars and thorns in battle,
I would step on them, I would set them all on fire.

Isaiah 57:16

“For I will not contend forever,
Nor will I always be angry;
For [if I did stay angry] the spirit [of man] would grow weak before Me,
And the breath of those whom I have created.