Psalms 78:39

WEB

³⁹He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn’t come again.

KJV

³⁹For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.

BSB

³⁹He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.

FBV

³⁹He remembered their mortality—that they were like a puff of wind that would not return.

Extra References

Genesis 6:3

³The LORD said, “My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; so his days will be one hundred twenty years.”

James 4:14

¹⁴Yet you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.

Job 7:7

⁷Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye will no more see good.

Job 7:16

¹⁶I loathe my life. I don’t want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

Job 10:9

⁹Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?

¹⁴For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust. ¹⁵As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes. ¹⁶For the wind passes over it, and it is gone. Its place remembers it no more.

John 3:6

⁶That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.