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29Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.
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Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
If he set his heart upon man, if he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath; …
His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.
Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 19-30)We are here taught to praise and magnify God, I. For the constant revolutions and succession of day and night, and the dominion of sun and moon over them. The heathen were so affected with the light and influence of the sun and moon, and their serviceableness to the earth, that they worshipped them as deities; and therefore the scripture takes all occasions to show that the gods they worshipped ar…
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