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Psalm 78:39 (WEB)
He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn’t come again.

Fathers and councils · 5

Augustine of Hippo, Confessions I.13Book I
“Yet whence was this unless from the sin and vanity of this life? for I was “but flesh, a wind that passeth away and cometh not again.”” — editor's note: Ps. lxxviii. 39, and Jas. iv. 14.
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Augustine of Hippo, Confessions IV.15Book IV
“…and Thou resistedst my changeable stiffneckedness; and I imagined corporeal forms, and, being flesh, I accused flesh, and, being “a wind that passeth away,” I returned not to Thee, but went wandering and wandering on towards those things that have no being, neither in Thee, nor in me, nor in the body.” — editor's note: Ps. lxxviii. 39.
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Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 78
““And He remembered that they are flesh, a spirit going and not returning” (ver. 39).” — the author cites it
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Augustine of Hippo, Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 92
“Deservedly dost thou go away, deservedly fall off, yea, deservedly even from thine own self depart; deservedly hear the words, “A spirit that goeth and returneth not.”” — editor's note: Ps. lxxvii. 39, Sept. (lxxviii. English version).
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Leo the Great, Sermons Sermon 54
“But O man that nothing could convert, O “spirit going and not returning,” thou didst follow thy heart’s rage, and, the devil standing at thy right hand, didst turn the wickedness, which thou hadst prepared against the life of all…” — editor's note: Ps. lxxviii. 39.
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