When his spirit departs, he returns to the ground; on that very day his plans perish.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 2:6Among the mature, however, we speak a message of wisdom--but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.
Psalm 33:10The LORD frustrates the plans of the nations; He thwarts the devices of the peoples.
Psalm 104:29When You hide Your face, they are terrified; when You take away their breath, they die and return to dust.
Ecclesiastes 12:7before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
Treasury of Scripture
His breath goes forth, he returns to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.
his breath
Psalm 104:29
Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.
Genesis 2:7
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 soul.
Genesis 6:17
And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.
he returneth
Psalm 90:3
Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
Genesis 3:19
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Ecclesiastes 12:7
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
his thoughts
Job 14:21
His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.
Job 17:11
My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
Isaiah 2:22
Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?
