Psalm 78:39
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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 passing breeze that does not return.
In other translations
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 passing breeze that does not return.
Hebrew words
Word by word from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew reads right to left.
Related verses
- James 4:14Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
- Genesis 6:3And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.So the LORD said, “My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days shall be 120 years.”
- Job 7:7O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.Remember that my life is but a breath. My eyes will never again see happiness.
- Job 7:16I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.I loathe my life! I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
- Job 10:9Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust?
- Psalm 103:14-1614 For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust. 15 As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. 16 For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.14 For He knows our frame; He is mindful that we are dust. 15 As for man, his days are like grass— he blooms like a flower of the field; 16 when the wind passes over, it vanishes, and its place remembers it no more.
- John 3:6That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.Flesh is born of flesh, but spirit is born of the Spirit.
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