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Psalms 103:16

The Pulpit Commentary on Psalms 103:16

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; literally, it is not. The burning sirocco, the wind of the desert, variously named in various places, blows upon the flower, and almost immediately scorches it up.

So man, when he flourishes most, is for the most part brought low by the wind of suffering, trouble, sickness, calamity, and sinks out of sight. And the place thereof shall know it no more; rather, knows it no more.

Seeing it not, forgets it, as if it had never been. So with the greatest men—they pass away and are forgotten (comp. ).

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