Psalms 78:39
And he remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and comes not again.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
In Context
40How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert!
Cross References
Genesis 6:3And LORD said, My spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he also is flesh. Yet shall his days be a hundred and twenty years.
Job 7:16I loathe [my life]. I would not live always. Let me alone, for my days are vanity.
Psalms 103:14For he knows our frame. He remembers that we are dust.
James 4:14men who know not of the morrow. For what is your life? For it will be a vapor that appears for a little while, and then also vanishes away--
Matthew Henry on Psalms 78:10-40
Wonders Wrought in Behalf of Israel; The Crimes of the Israelites; 9 The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle. 10 They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law; 11 And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had showed them. 12 Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. 13 He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as a heap. 14 In the daytime… Read the whole commentary →