Job 34:15

Modern

…all flesh would perish together and mankind would return to the dust.

Traditional

All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust.

Literal

…then all flesh would perish together, and man would return to the dust.

Latin

Deficiet omnis caro simul, et homo in cinerem revertetur.

Hebrew

English

…all flesh would perish together and mankind would return to the dust.

The passage connects three ideas to the belief that God can do no wrong (34:10, 12):

God rewards or punishes people based on their actions (34:11);
As the creator, God does not have to answer to anyone (34:13).
Every living being relies on God for life. God can take life away without being wrong (34:14–15; compare Romans 9:19–29).

Genesis 3:19
By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground—because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”
Ecclesiastes 12:7
…before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
Isaiah 57:16
For I will not accuse you forever, nor will I always be angry; for then the spirit of man would grow weak before Me—the breath of life I have made.
Psalm 90:3–10
You return man to dust, saying, “Return, O sons of mortals.”
Job 9:22
It is all the same, and so I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’
Job 10:9
Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust?
Isaiah 27:4
I am not angry. If only thorns and briers confronted Me, I would march and trample them, I would burn them to the ground.
Job 30:23
Yes, I know that You will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.