Verse 39

He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 6:3 : 3 Then the Lord said, "My Spirit will not contend with humanity forever, because they are flesh; their days will be 120 years."
  • Job 7:7 : 7 Remember that my life is but a breath; my eyes will never see good again.
  • Jas 4:14 : 14 Why, 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.
  • Job 7:16 : 16 I despise my life; I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
  • Job 10:9 : 9 Remember, You fashioned me from clay; will You now return me to dust?
  • Ps 103:14-16 : 14 For He knows how we are formed; He remembers that we are dust. 15 As for man, his days are like grass, he blooms like a flower of the field. 16 The wind blows over it, and it is gone, and its place remembers it no more.
  • John 3:6 : 6 What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.