Psalm 78:39
He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.
For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn’t come again.
And he remembered that they were but flesh, A wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- For he
- Psalm 103:14–16; Genesis 6:3; John 3:6
- a wind
- Or, as the Hebrew {rooäch holaich welo yashoov} may be rendered, "the spirit goeth away and returneth not again." To this purpose the Arabic, "He remembered that they were flesh; and a spirit which when it departs, returneth not again." The human being is composed of flesh and spirit, or body and soul: these are easily separated, and when separated, the body turns to dust, and the spirit returns no more to animate the body in a state of probation.
- Job 7:7, 16; James 4:14