Psalms 146:4
His spirit goeth forth, he returneth to his earth, In that day have his thoughts perished.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.
In Context
3Trust not in princes — in a son of man, For he hath no deliverance.
5O the happiness of him Who hath the God of Jacob for his help, His hope [is] on Jehovah his God,
Cross References
Genesis 3:19by the sweat of thy face thou dost eat bread till thy return unto the ground, for out of it hast thou been taken, for dust thou [art], and unto dust thou turnest back.'
Job 14:10And a man dieth, and becometh weak, And man expireth, and where [is] he?
Job 17:1My spirit hath been destroyed, My days extinguished — graves [are] for me.
Job 27:3For all the while my breath [is] in me, And the spirit of God in my nostrils.
Psalms 90:3Thou turnest man unto a bruised thing, And sayest, Turn back, ye sons of men.
Ecclesiastes 9:6Their love also, their hatred also, their envy also, hath already perished, and they have no more a portion to the age in all that hath been 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 →