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39 For he remembered that they were merely mortal,
    gone like a breath of wind that never returns.

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

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14 How do you know what your life will be like tomorrow? Your life is like the morning fog—it’s here a little while, then it’s gone.

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14 Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.(A)

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O God, remember that my life is but a breath,
    and I will never again feel happiness.

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Remember, O God, that my life is but a breath;(A)
    my eyes will never see happiness again.(B)

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Then the Lord said, “My Spirit will not put up with[a] humans for such a long time, for they are only mortal flesh. In the future, their normal lifespan will be no more than 120 years.”

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Footnotes

  1. 6:3 Greek version reads will not remain in.

Then the Lord said, “My Spirit(A) will not contend with[a] humans forever,(B) for they are mortal[b];(C) their days will be a hundred and twenty years.”

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  1. Genesis 6:3 Or My spirit will not remain in
  2. Genesis 6:3 Or corrupt

16 I hate my life and don’t want to go on living.
    Oh, leave me alone for my few remaining days.

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16 I despise my life;(A) I would not live forever.(B)
    Let me alone;(C) my days have no meaning.(D)

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14 For he knows how weak we are;
    he remembers we are only dust.
15 Our days on earth are like grass;
    like wildflowers, we bloom and die.
16 The wind blows, and we are gone—
    as though we had never been here.

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14 for he knows how we are formed,(A)
    he remembers that we are dust.(B)
15 The life of mortals is like grass,(C)
    they flourish like a flower(D) of the field;
16 the wind blows(E) over it and it is gone,
    and its place(F) remembers it no more.

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Remember that you made me from dust—
    will you turn me back to dust so soon?

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Remember that you molded me like clay.(A)
    Will you now turn me to dust again?(B)

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Humans can reproduce only human life, but the Holy Spirit gives birth to spiritual life.[a]

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  1. 3:6 Greek what is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit[a] gives birth to spirit.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. John 3:6 Or but spirit