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4His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.
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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.
Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.
And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-4)David is supposed to have penned this psalm; and he was himself a prince, a mighty prince; as such, it might be thought, 1. That he should be exempted from the service of praising God, that it was enough for him to see that his priests and people did it, but that he needed not to do it himself in his own person. Michal thought it a disparagement to him to dance before the ark ; but he was so far f…
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