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39 He remembered that they were but flesh,
    a wind that passes and does not come again.(A)

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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 Yet you do not even know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.(A)

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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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“Remember that my life is a breath;
    my eye will never again see good.(A)

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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 shall not abide[a] in mortals forever, for they are flesh; their days shall be one hundred twenty years.”(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 6.3 Meaning of Heb uncertain

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 loathe my life; I would not live forever.
    Let me alone, for my days are a breath.(A)

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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 we were made;
    he remembers that we are dust.(A)

15 As for mortals, their days are like grass;
    they flourish like a flower of the field;(B)
16 for the wind passes over it, and it is gone,
    and its place knows it no more.

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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 fashioned me like clay,
    and will you turn me to dust again?(A)

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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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What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.

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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