Verse 39

He remembered that they were made of flesh, and were like a wind that blows past and does not return.

Referenced Verses

  • Gen 6:3 : 3 So the LORD said,“My Spirit will not remain in humankind indefinitely, since they are mortal. They will remain for 120 more years.”
  • Job 7:7 : 7 Remember that my life is but a breath, that my eyes will never again see happiness.
  • Jas 4:14 : 14 You do not know about tomorrow. What is your life like? For you are a puff of smoke that appears for a short time and then vanishes.
  • Job 7:16 : 16 I loathe it; I do not want to live forever; leave me alone, for my days are a vapor!
  • Job 10:9 : 9 Remember that you have made me as with the clay; will you return me to dust?
  • Ps 103:14-16 : 14 For he knows what we are made of; he realizes we are made of clay. 15 A person’s life is like grass. Like a flower in the field it flourishes, 16 but when the hot wind blows by, it disappears, and one can no longer even spot the place where it once grew.
  • John 3:6 : 6 What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.