Psalms 78:39

American Standard Version (1901)

And he remembered that they were but flesh, A wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 6:3 : 3 And Jehovah said, My Spirit shall not strive with man for ever, for that he also is flesh: yet shall his days be a hundred and twenty years. [
  • Job 7:7 : 7 Oh remember that my life is a breath: Mine eye shall no more see good.
  • Jas 4:14 : 14 whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. What is your life? For ye are a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
  • Job 7:16 : 16 I loathe [my life] ; I would not live alway: Let me alone; for my days are vanity.
  • Job 10:9 : 9 Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast fashioned me as clay; And wilt thou bring me into dust again?
  • Ps 103:14-16 : 14 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.
  • John 3:6 : 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

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    40How oft did they rebel against him in the wilderness, And grieve him in the desert!

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    14For he knoweth our frame; He remembereth that we are dust.

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  • Job 34:14-15
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    14If he set his heart upon himself, [If] he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath;

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    29Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled; Thou takest away their breath, they die, And return to their dust.

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    28And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, Round about their habitations.

    29So they did eat, and were well filled; And he gave them their own desire.

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    11And they forgat his doings, And his wondrous works that he had showed them.

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    44Nevertheless he regarded their distress, When he heard their cry:

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    33Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, And their years in terror.

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    18That they are as stubble before the wind, And as chaff that the storm carrieth away?

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    18And they tempted God in their heart By asking food according to their desire.

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