Psalms 102:16
For the spirit shall pass in him, and he shall not be: and he shall know his place no more.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- quoniam spiritus pertransibit in illo, et non subsistet, et non cognoscet amplius locum suum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὅτι πνεῦμα διῆλθεν ἐν αὐτῷ καὶ οὐχ ὑπάρξει, καὶ οὐκ ἐπιγνώσεται ἔτι τὸν τόπον αὐτοῦ.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 103:16
- כִּ֤י ר֣וּחַ עָֽבְרָה בּ֣וֹ וְאֵינֶ֑נּוּ וְלֹא יַכִּירֶ֖נּוּ ע֣וֹד מְקוֹמֽוֹ
Haydock's commentary
In him. Or "over it;" the flower. Or the spirit of God's indignation will overwhelm him. The soul of man departs, and cannot naturally be reunited with the body, though it greatly desire that union. (Calmet)
The longest life is but like the duration of a flower, (Isaias xl. 6.; Haydock) and the splendour of the noblest families is no better in the sight of God. (St. Augustine)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm CIII
20. “The wind shall go over on it, it shall not be; and the place thereof shall know it no more” ( ver. 16 ). For he is not speaking of grass, but of that for whose sake even the Word became grass. For thou art man, and on thy account the Word became man. “All flesh is grass:” “and the Word was made flesh.” How great then is the hope of the grass, since the Word hath been made flesh? That which abideth for evermore, hath not disdained to assume grass, that the grass might not despair of itself.