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Psalms Chapter 104 verse 29 Holy Bible

ASV Psalms 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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BBE Psalms 104:29

If your face is veiled, they are troubled; when you take away their breath, they come to an end, and go back to the dust.
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DARBY Psalms 104:29

Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled; thou takest away their breath, they expire and return to their dust.
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KJV Psalms 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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WBT Psalms 104:29

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WEB Psalms 104:29

You hide your face: they are troubled; You take away their breath: they die, and return to the dust.
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YLT Psalms 104:29

Thou hidest Thy face -- they are troubled, Thou gatherest their spirit -- they expire, And unto their dust they turn back.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 29. - Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled. If God withdraws the light of his countenance from any living thing, instantly it feels the loss. It is "troubled," cast down, confounded (comp. Psalm 30:7). Thou takest away their breath, they die. As the living things have life from God, so they have death from him. Not one of them perishes but he knows it, and causes it or allows it (see Matthew 10:29). And return to their dust. Return, i.e., to the dead matter out of which they were created.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(29) Thou hidest Thy face.--Elsewhere an image of displeasure, here only of withdrawal of providential care. (See Psalm 30:7, where the expression "troubled" also occurs.)Thou takest away their breath.--Not only is the food which sustains animal life dependent on the ceaseless providence of God, but even the very breath of life is His, to be sent forth or withdrawn at His will. But to this thought, derived of course from Genesis (comp. Psalm 90:3, Note), the poet adds another. The existence of death is not a sorrow to him any more than it is a mystery. To the psalmist it is only the individual that dies; the race lives. One generation fades as God's breath is withdrawn, but another succeeds as it is sent forth.