30:23 I know that you are bringing
to the meeting place for all the living.
3:19 By the sweat of your brow
until you return to the ground,
for out of it you were taken;
for you are dust, and to dust you will return.”
90:3 You make mankind return
and say, “Return, O people!”
90:4 Yes,
are like yesterday that quickly passes,
or like one of the divisions of the nighttime.
90:5 You bring their lives to an end and they “fall asleep.”
In the morning they are like the grass that sprouts up;
90:6 in the morning it glistens
at evening time it withers
90:7 Yes,
we are terrified by your wrath.
90:8 You are aware of our sins;
you even know about our hidden sins.
90:9 Yes,
the years of our lives pass quickly, like a sigh.
90:10 The days of our lives add up to seventy years,
or eighty, if one is especially strong.
But even one’s best years are marred by trouble and oppression.
Yes,
12:7 and the dust returns to the earth as it was,
and the life’s breath
27:4 I am not angry.
I wish I could confront some thorns and briers!
Then I would march against them
I would set them
57:16 For I will not be hostile
or perpetually angry,
for then man’s spirit would grow faint before me,
the life-giving breath I created.