4 His spirit goeth forth, he returneth to his earth, In that day have his thoughts perished.
Thou hidest Thy face -- they are troubled, Thou gatherest their spirit -- they expire, And unto their dust they turn back.
And the dust returneth to the earth as it was, And the spirit returneth to God who gave it.
And wisdom we speak among the perfect, and wisdom not of this age, nor of the rulers of this age -- of those becoming useless,
by the sweat of thy face thou dost eat bread till thy return unto the ground, for out of it hast thou been taken, for dust thou `art', and unto dust thou turnest back.'
Honoured are his sons, and he knoweth not; And they are little, and he attendeth not to them.
My spirit hath been destroyed, My days extinguished -- graves `are' for me.
Jehovah made void the counsel of nations, He disallowed the thoughts of the peoples.
Thou turnest man unto a bruised thing, And sayest, Turn back, ye sons of men.
The breath of our nostrils -- the anointed of Jehovah, Hath been captured in their pits, of whom we said: `In his shadow we do live among nations.'
and against the Lord of the heavens thou hast lifted up thyself; and the vessels of His house they have brought in before thee, and thou, and thy great men, thy wives, and thy concubines, are drinking wine with them, and gods of silver, and of gold, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone, that are not seeing, nor hearing, nor knowing, thou hast praised: and the God in whose hand `is' thy breath, and all thy ways, Him thou hast not honoured.
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Commentary on Psalms 146 Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
PSALM 146
Ps 146:1-10. An exhortation to praise God, who, by the gracious and faithful exercise of His power in goodness to the needy, is alone worthy of implicit trust.