Psalms 146:4
His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.
In Context
3Don’t put your trust in princes, in a 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 the LORD, his God,
Cross References
Genesis 3:19You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”
Job 14:10But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?
Job 17:1“My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct and the grave is ready for me.
Job 27:3(for the length of my life is still in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils);
Psalms 90:3You turn man to destruction, saying, “Return, you children of men.”
Ecclesiastes 9:6Also their love, their hatred, and their envy has perished long ago; neither do they any longer have 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 →