Psalm 103:16 “when the wind passes over, it vanishes, and its place remembers it no…”

Psalm 103:16

when the wind passes over, it vanishes, and its place remembers it no more.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.

World English Bible

For the wind passes over it, and it is gone. Its place remembers it no more.

American Standard Version

For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; And the place thereof shall know it no more.

Geneva Bible 1599

For the winde goeth ouer it, and it is gone, and the place thereof shall knowe it no more.

Darby Translation

For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone, and the place thereof knoweth it no more.

Young's Literal Translation

For a wind hath passed over it, and it is not, And its place doth not discern it any more.

Bible in Basic English

The wind goes over it and it is gone; and its place sees it no longer.

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Cross references

“the wind”

Isaiah 40:7 Job 27:20 Job 27:21

Isaiah 40:7 · BSB

The grass withers and the flowers fall when the breath of the LORD blows on them; indeed, the people are grass.

Job 27:20 · BSB

Terrors overtake him like a flood; a tempest sweeps him away in the night.

Job 27:21 · BSB

The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.

“it is gone”

Job 14:10 Genesis 5:24

Job 14:10 · BSB

But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last, and where is he?

Genesis 5:24 · BSB

Enoch walked with God, and then he was no more, because God had taken him away.

“and the”

Job 20:9 Job 7:6–10 Job 8:18 Job 8:19

Job 20:9 · BSB

The eye that saw him will see him no more, and his place will no longer behold him.

Job 7:6–10 · BSB

My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope.

Job 8:18 · BSB

If he is uprooted from his place, it will disown him, saying, ‘I never saw you.’

Job 8:19 · BSB

Surely this is the joy of his way; yet others will spring from the dust.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

15As for man, his days are like grass— he blooms like a flower of the field;

17But from everlasting to everlasting the loving devotion of the LORD extends to those who fear Him, and His righteousness to their children’s children—

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