Psalm 78:39 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁹ For He [earnestly] remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that goes and does not return.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁹ And he remembered that they were but flesh, A wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.

Common English Bible

³⁹ God kept remembering that they were just flesh, just breath that passes and doesn’t come back.

Psalm 78:39 Cross References

Genesis 6:3

And the LORD said, My spirit shall not strive with man for ever, for that he also is flesh: yet shall his days be an hundred and twenty years.

Job 10:9

Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast fashioned me as clay; And wilt thou bring me into dust again?

Job 7:16

I loathe my life; I would not live alway: Let me alone; for my days are vanity

Job 7:7

Oh remember that my life is wind: Mine eye shall no more see good.

John 3:6

That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

James 4:14

whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. What is your life? For ye are a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.