Job 34:15
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New International Version (©2011)
all humanity would perish together and mankind would return to the dust.

New Living Translation (©2007)
all life would cease, and humanity would turn again to dust.

English Standard Version (©2001)
all flesh would perish together, and man would return to dust.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
All flesh would perish together, And man would return to dust.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
every living thing would perish together and mankind would return to the dust.

International Standard Version (©2012)
every living thing would die all at once, and mankind would return to dust."

NET Bible (©2006)
all flesh would perish together and human beings would return to dust.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
all living beings would die together, and humanity would return to dust.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
All flesh would perish together, and man would turn again unto dust.

American King James Version
All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again to dust.

American Standard Version
All flesh shall perish together, And man shall turn again unto dust.

Douay-Rheims Bible
All flesh shall perish together, and man shall return into ashes.

Darby Bible Translation
All flesh would expire together, and man would return to the dust.

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

Webster's Bible Translation
All flesh would perish together, and man would turn again to dust.

World English Bible
all flesh would perish together, and man would turn again to dust.

Young's Literal Translation
Expire doth all flesh together, And man to dust returneth.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

34:10-15 Elihu had showed Job, that God meant him no hurt by afflicting him, but intended his spiritual benefit. Here he shows, that God did him no wrong by afflicting him. If the former did not satisfy him, this ought to silence him. God cannot do wickedness, nor the Almighty commit wrong. If services now go unrewarded, and sins now go unpunished, yet there is a day coming, when God will fully render to every man according to his works. Further, though the believer's final condemnation is done away through the Saviour's ransom, yet he has merited worse than any outward afflictions; so that no wrong is done to him, however he may be tried.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 15. - All flesh shall perish together (comp. Psalm 104:29). Without God's sustaining hand, all creatures would fall back into nothingness. And man shall turn again unto dust, Either Elihu refers here to Genesis 3:19, or else he has a traditional knowledge of man's origin, handed down from a remote antiquity, which is in entire conformity with the Hebrew belief.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

All flesh shall perish together,.... Not one by one, or one after another, as they generally do, but all together; as when the flood swept away the world of the ungodly. "All flesh" signifies all men, and their bodies of flesh particularly, which are weak, frail, and mortal; and if God gathers or takes out the spirit from them, they die immediately, which is meant by perishing, as in Ecclesiastes 7:15;

and man shall turn again unto dust; from whence he came, as the body does at death; when those earthly tabernacles of the bodies of men, which have their foundation in the dust, are dissolved and sink into it. Now though this is the case of particular persons, one after another, yet it is not a general case, as it would be if God was to exert his power, as he might without any charge of injustice: and this shows the merciful kindness of God to man, so far is he from doing any thing injurious or unjust.

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Elihu Confirms God's Justice
…14If he set his heart on man, if he gather to himself his spirit and his breath; 15All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again to dust. 16If now you have understanding, hear this: listen to the voice of my words. …

Genesis 3:19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return."
Genesis 7:21 Every living thing that moved on land perished--birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind.
2 Samuel 14:14 Like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be recovered, so we must die. But that is not what God desires; rather, he devises ways so that a banished person does not remain banished from him.
Job 9:22 It is all the same; that is why I say, 'He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.'
Job 10:9 Remember that you molded me like clay. Will you now turn me to dust again?
Job 34:16 "If you have understanding, hear this; listen to what I say.
Psalm 90:3 You turn people back to dust, saying, "Return to dust, you mortals."
Psalm 104:29 When you hide your face, they are terrified; when you take away their breath, they die and return to the dust.
Ecclesiastes 12:7 and the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.