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Elihu Confirms God’s Justice

Job 34:15

In 11 translations

BSB
all flesh would perish together and mankind would return to the dust.
KJV
All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust.
WEB
all flesh would perish together, and man would turn again to dust.
ASV
All flesh shall perish together, And man shall turn again unto dust.
LSV
All flesh expires together, || And man returns to dust.
YLT
Expire doth all flesh together, And man to dust returneth.
DBY
All flesh would expire together, and man would return to the dust.
DRC
All flesh shall perish together, and man shall return into ashes.
GNV
All flesh shall perish together, and man shall returne vnto dust.
JPS
All flesh shall perish together, and man shall return unto dust.
LXXE
all flesh would die together, and every mortal would return to the earth, whence also he was formed.

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Original-language editions

WLC
יִגְוַ֣ע כָּל־בָּשָׂ֣ר יָ֑חַד וְ֝אָדָ֗ם עַל־עָפָ֥ר יָשֽׁוּב׃
LXX-Br
τελευτήσει πᾶσα σὰρξ ὁμοθυμαδὸν, πᾶς δὲ βροτὸς εἰς γῆν ἀπελεύσεται, ὅθεν καὶ ἐπλάσθη.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Genesis 3:19By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground— because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”
  • Ecclesiastes 12:7before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
  • Isaiah 57:16For I will not accuse you forever, nor will I always be angry; for then the spirit of man would grow weak before Me, with the breath of those I have made.
  • Psalms 90:3–10You return man to dust, saying, “Return, O sons of mortals.” For in Your sight a thousand years are but a day that passes, or a watch of the night. You whisk them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the…
  • Job 9:22It is all the same, and so I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’
  • Isaiah 27:4I am not angry. If only thorns and briers confronted Me, I would march and trample them, I would burn them to the ground.
  • Job 30:23Yes, I know that You will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.
  • Job 10:9Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust?

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