Charles Ellicott Commentary Psalms 78:39

"And he remembered that they were but flesh, A wind that passeth away, and cometh not again." — Psalms 78:39 (ASV)

“And what’s a life? A blast sustained with clothing:

Maintained with food, retained with vile self-loathing;
Then, weary of itself, away to nothing.”—
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