Job 34:15

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Job 34:13–17 · Berean Standard Bible

13 Who gave Him charge over the earth? Who appointed Him over the whole world?

14 If He were to set His heart to it and withdraw His Spirit and breath,

15 all flesh would perish together and mankind would return to the dust.

16 If you have understanding, hear this; listen to my words.

17 Could one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn the just and mighty One,

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Job 30:23

Yes, I know that You will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.

Genesis 3:19

By 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.”

Psalms 90:3

You return man to dust, saying, “Return, O sons of mortals.”

Psalms 90:4

For in Your sight a thousand years are but a day that passes, or a watch of the night.

Psalms 90:5

You whisk them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning—

Psalms 90:6

in the morning it springs up new, but by evening it fades and withers.

Psalms 90:7

For we are consumed by Your anger and terrified by Your wrath.

Psalms 90:8

You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your presence.

Psalms 90:9

For all our days decline in Your fury; we finish our years with a sigh.

Psalms 90:10

The length of our days is seventy years— or eighty if we are strong— yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Isaiah 27:4

I am not angry. If only thorns and briers confronted Me, I would march and trample them, I would burn them to the ground.

Isaiah 57:16

For 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.