Psa 78:39

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For he.

Ps 103:14-16; Gen 6:3; John 3:6

a wind.

Or, as the Hebrew {roo�h holaich welo yashoov} may be rendered, "the spirit goeth away and returneth not again." To this purpose the Arabic, "He remembered that they were flesh; and a spirit which when it departs, returneth not again."

The human being is composed of flesh and spirit, or body and soul: these are easily separated, and when separated, the body turns to dust, and the spirit returns no more to animate the body in a state of probation.

Job 7:7; Job 7:16; Jas 4:14