He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn’t come again.
Parallel translations
- KJV For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
- BSB He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.
- NKJV For He remembered that they were but flesh, A breath that passes away and does not come again.
- NASB So He remembered that they were only flesh, A wind that passes and does not return.
- NLT For he remembered that they were merely mortal, gone like a breath of wind that never returns.
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Cross-references · 7
- Jas 4:14Whereas 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.
- Gen 6:3Yahweh said, “My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; so his days will be one hundred twenty years.”
- Job 7:7Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye shall no more see good.
- Job 7:16I loathe my life. I don’t want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
- Job 10:9Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?
- Ps 103:14–16For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust.
- John 3:6That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
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