Psalm 103:16 {102:16}
Good News Translation
then the wind blows on it, and it is gone--no one sees it again.

New Revised Standard Version
for the wind passes over it, and it is gone, and its place knows it no more.

Contemporary English Version
But a scorching wind blows, and they quickly wither to be forever forgotten.

New American Bible
A wind sweeps over it and it is gone; its place knows it no more.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For the spirit shall pass in him, and he shall not be: and he shall know his place no more.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For the spirit shall pass in him, and he shall not be: and he shall know his place no more.

the wind

Job 27:20,21 Poverty like water shall take hold on him, a tempest shall oppress him in the night: . . .

Isaiah 40:7 The grass is withered, and the flower is fallen, because the spirit of the Lord hath blown upon it. Indeed the people is grass:

it is gone.

Job 7:6-10 My days have passed more swiftly than the web is cut by the weaver, and are consumed without any hope. . . .

Job 8:18,19 If one swallow him up out of his place, he shall deny him, and shall say: I know thee not. . . .

Job 20:9 The eyes that had seen him, shall see him no more, neither shall his place any more behold him.

Context
Bless the LORD, O My Soul
15Man's days are as grass, as the flower of the field so shall he flourish. 16For the spirit shall pass in him, and he shall not be: and he shall know his place no more.17But the mercy of the Lord is from eternity and unto eternity upon them that fear him: And his justice unto children's children,…
Cross References
Job 7:10
Nor shall he return any more into his house, neither shall his place know him any more

Job 8:18
If one swallow him up out of his place, he shall deny him, and shall say: I know thee not.

Job 20:9
The eyes that had seen him, shall see him no more, neither shall his place any more behold him.

Isaiah 40:7
The grass is withered, and the flower is fallen, because the spirit of the Lord hath blown upon it. Indeed the people is grass:

Psalm 103:15
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