Psalm 103:16

New International Reader's Version

When the wind blows on them, they are gone. No one can tell that they had ever been there.

Cross References

Genesis 5:24

Enoch walked faithfully with God. And then he couldn’t be found, because God took him from this life.

Job 14:10

No man is like that. When he dies, he is buried in a grave. He takes his last breath. Then he is gone.

Job 20:9

The eyes that saw them won’t see them anymore. Even their own families won’t remember them.

Isaiah 40:6

Another messenger says, “Cry out.” And I said, “What should I cry?” “Cry out, ‘All people are like grass. They don’t stay faithful to me any longer than wildflowers last.

Isaiah 40:7

The grass dries up. The flowers fall to the ground. That happens when the Lord makes his wind blow on them. So people are just like grass.