Psalms 78:39

Authorized King James Version (1611)

For 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 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.
  • Job 7:7 : 7 ¶ O remember that my life [is] wind: mine eye shall no more see good.
  • Jas 4:14 : 14 Whereas 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.
  • Job 7:16 : 16 I loathe [it]; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days [are] vanity.
  • Job 10:9 : 9 Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the 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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