Psalms 146:4
His breath goes forth, he returns to his earth. In that very day his thoughts perish.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.
In Context
3Put not your trust in rulers, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
5Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in LORD his God,
Cross References
Genesis 3:19In the sweat of thy face thou shall eat bread, till thou return to the ground, for out of it thou were taken. For thou are dust, and to dust thou shall return.
Job 14:10But man dies, and is laid low. Yea, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?
Job 17:1My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, the grave is [ready] for me.
Job 27:3(For my life is yet whole in me. And the spirit of God is in my nostrils.)
Psalms 90:3Thou turn man to destruction, and say, Return, ye sons of men.
Ecclesiastes 9:6As well their love, as their hatred and their envy, has perished long ago, nor have they any more a portion forever in anything that is done under the sun.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 146:2-5
The Divine Bounty. 1 Praise ye the Lord . Praise the Lord , O my soul. 2 While I live will I praise the Lord : I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being. 3 Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. 4 His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish. David is supposed to have penned this psalm; and he was himself a prince, a mighty prince; as such, it might be thought, 1. That he should be exempted from the service of praising… Read the whole commentary →