Psalms 103:16

World English Bible (2000)

For the wind passes over it, and it is gone. Its place remembers it no more.

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 40:7 : 7 The grass withers, the flower fades, because Yahweh's breath blows on it. Surely the people are like grass.
  • Job 20:9 : 9 The eye which saw him shall see him no more, neither shall his place any more see him.
  • Gen 5:24 : 24 Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him.
  • Job 7:6-9 : 6 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope. 7 Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye shall no more see good. 8 The eye of him who sees me shall see me no more. Your eyes shall be on me, but I shall not be. 9 As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol shall come up no more. 10 He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
  • Job 8:18-19 : 18 If he is destroyed from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, 'I have not seen you.' 19 Behold, this is the joy of his way: out of the earth, others shall spring.
  • Job 14:10 : 10 But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?
  • Job 27:20-21 : 20 Terrors overtake him like waters. A storm steals him away in the night. 21 The east wind carries him away, and he departs. It sweeps him out of his place.

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    17 In the dry season, they vanish. When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

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    9 As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol shall come up no more.

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