KJV King James Version
Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.
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Psalm 104:29
Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
When You hide Your face, they are terrified; when You take away their breath, they die and return to dust.
WEB World English Bible
You hide your face: they are troubled; you take away their breath: they die, and return to the dust.
ASV American Standard Version
Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled; Thou takest away their breath, they die, And return to their dust.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Thou hidest Thy face—they are troubled, Thou gatherest their spirit—they expire, And unto their dust they turn back.
Surrounding context — Psalm 104
26 There go the ships: [there is] that leviathan, [whom] thou hast made to play therein.
27 These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give [them] their meat in due season.
28 [That] thou givest them they gather: thou openest thine hand, they are filled with good.
29 Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.
30 Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth.
31 The glory of the LORD shall endure for ever: the LORD shall rejoice in his works.
32 He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth: he toucheth the hills, and they smoke.
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Ecclesiastes 12:7Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.Job 34:14-15If he set his heart upon man, [if] he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath;Psalm 146:4His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.Psalm 30:7LORD, by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong: thou didst hide thy face, [and] I was troubled.Psalm 90:3Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.Genesis 3:19In 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.Acts 17:25Neither is worshipped with men’s hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;Job 10:9Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?Deuteronomy 31:17Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God [is] not among us?Job 13:24Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?Job 34:29When he giveth quietness, who then can make trouble? and when he hideth [his] face, who then can behold him? whether [it be done] against a nation, or against a man only:Romans 8:20-22For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected [the same] in hope,
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