Proverbs 11:7

You hide your face; they are troubled. You take away their breath; they die and return to the dust.

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

You will seek me, and won’t find me. You can’t come where I am.”

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

May he grant you your heart’s desire, and fulfill all your counsel.

He who acts unjustly, let him act unjustly still. He who is filthy, let him be filthy still. He who is righteous, let him do righteousness still. He who is holy, let him be holy still.”

Among these nations you will find no ease, and there will be no rest for the sole of your foot; but Yahweh will give you there a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and pining of soul.

So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man will perish,

Let them vanish like water that flows away. When they draw the bow, let their arrows be made blunt.

The prospect of the righteous is joy, but the hope of the wicked will perish.

We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown, yet a wisdom not of this world nor of the rulers of this world who are coming to nothing.

And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me for his heavenly Kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”

I have waited for your salvation, Yahweh.

The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth.

The wicked will see it, and be grieved. He shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away. The desire of the wicked will perish.

The shepherds will have no way to flee. The leader of the flock will have no escape.

When I tell the wicked, ‘You will surely die;’ and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; that wicked man will die in his iniquity; but I will require his blood at your hand.

“Son of man, tell the prince of Tyre, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, ‘I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the middle of the seas;’ yet you are man, and not God, though you set your heart as the heart of God—

There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in God’s Kingdom, and yourselves being thrown outside.

I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins.”

Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,

We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.

I, even I, will bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die.

Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.

His sons come to honor, and he doesn’t know it. They are brought low, but he doesn’t perceive it of them.

“My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct, and the grave is ready for me.

He who denounces his friends for plunder, Even the eyes of his children will fail.

My days are past. My plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart.

For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?

“If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.

May all my enemies be ashamed and dismayed. They shall turn back, they shall be disgraced suddenly.

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.

Mark the perfect man, and see the upright, for there is a future for the man of peace.

As for transgressors, they shall be destroyed together. The future of the wicked shall be cut off.

Nevertheless you shall die like men, and fall like one of the rulers.”

Show me a sign of your goodness, that those who hate me may see it, and be shamed, because you, Yahweh, have helped me, and comforted me.

Look on my right, and see; for there is no one who is concerned for me. Refuge has fled from me. No one cares for my soul.

He will die for lack of instruction. In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray.

Before destruction the heart of man is proud, but before honor is humility.

Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When Yahweh stretches out his hand, both he who helps shall stumble, and he who is helped shall fall, and they all shall be consumed together.

“ ‘ “Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters. She also didn’t strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

This is the joyous city that lived carelessly, that said in her heart, “I am, and there is no one besides me.” How she has become a desolation, a place for animals to lie down in! Everyone who passes by her will hiss, and shake their fists.

Little children, I will be with you a little while longer. You will seek me, and as I said to the Jews, ‘Where I am going, you can’t come,’ so now I tell you.

Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me. Because I live, you will live also.

For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees?

He took off their chariot wheels, and they drove them heavily; so that the Egyptians said, “Let’s flee from the face of Israel, for Yahweh fights for them against the Egyptians!”

As Yahweh your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent to seek you. When they said, ‘He is not here,’ he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they didn’t find you.

The king arose in his wrath from the banquet of wine and went into the palace garden. Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king.

He will lean on his house, but it will not stand. He will cling to it, but it will not endure.

But the eyes of the wicked will fail. They will have no way to flee. Their hope will be the giving up of the spirit.”

But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?

He will be rooted out of the security of his tent. He will be brought to the king of terrors.

He will be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forever more.

As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.

Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, he will sweep away the green and the burning alike.

I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail looking for my God.

The upright will see it, and be glad. All the wicked will shut their mouths.

His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.

Therefore his calamity will come suddenly. He will be broken suddenly, and that without remedy.

Yahweh will not allow the soul of the righteous to go hungry, but he thrusts away the desire of the wicked.

The desire of the righteous is only good. The expectation of the wicked is wrath.

The wicked are overthrown, and are no more, but the house of the righteous shall stand.

The life of the body is a heart at peace, but envy rots the bones.

The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.

for a righteous man falls seven times and rises up again; but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.

“I, even I, am he who comforts you. Who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who will be made as grass?

but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines, have drunk wine from them. You have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which don’t see, or hear, or know; and you have not glorified the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways.

“Now you are releasing your servant, Master, according to your word, in peace;

Jesus said therefore again to them, “I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sins. Where I go, you can’t come.”

What if God, willing to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

But I am hard pressed between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.

For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman. Then they will in no way escape.

For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.

I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’ ” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them.”

Will you yet say before him who kills you, ‘I am God’? But you are man, and not God, in the hand of him who wounds you.