Psalms 78:39 - Exposition

For he remembered that they were but flesh (comp. Genesis 6:3 ). Flesh is weak, erring, frail—"in us, that is, in our flesh, dwelleth no good thing" ( Romans 7:17 )—God, therefore, who had made them "flesh," had compassion on their weakness. A wind that passeth away, and cometh not again (comp. Job 7:7 ). Man is a mere passing breath—as light, as fleeting, as transitory—"a vapour that appeareth for a little while, and then vanisheth away" ( James 4:14 ).