For He remembered that they were but flesh, A passing breath that does not return.
And יהוה said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever in his going astray. He is flesh, and his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.”
Remember, please, that You have made me like clay. And would You turn me into dust again?
I have wasted away, I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are a breath.
Remember that my life is a breath! My eye is never again to see good.
“That which has been born of the flesh is flesh, and that which has been born of the Spirit is spirit.
when you do not know of tomorrow. For what is your life? For it is a vapour that appears for a little, and then disappears –