For he remembered that they [were but] flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
Ver. 39. For he remembered that they were but flesh] i.e. Frail and feeble, full of sin and misery., see Gen 6:3 altogether unable to grapple with God's wrath.
A wind that passeth away, &c.] Et in suis reciprocationibus evanescens. For winds neither return thither whence they blow, nor yet pass from one coast to another, but are wasted in the middle of the world, by the force of the sun and by their own motion, as Aristotle concludeth in his discourse concerning metaphors. Now, what is man (saith Nazianzen) but soul and soil, breath and body, a puff of wind the one, a pile of dust the other, no solidity in either?