Genesis 7:22

7:22 Everything on dry land that had the breath of life ¹  in its nostrils died.

Ecclesiastes 3:21

3:21 Who really knows if the human spirit ²  ascends upward,

and the animal’s spirit descends into the earth?

Isaiah 2:22

2:22 Stop trusting in human beings,

whose life’s breath is in their nostrils.

For why should they be given special consideration?

¹ tn Heb “everything which [has] the breath of the spirit of life in its nostrils from all which is in the dry land.”

² tn Heb “the spirit of the sons of man.”