Psalms 78:38-39

78:38

compassionate <07349> [But he.]

often <07235> [many.]

stir <05782> [did not.]

78:39

remembered <02142> [For he.]

wind <07307> [a wind.]

Or, as the Hebrew {roo„ch 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.