Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 78:39

39 For he remembred that they were [illegible: 1+ letters]ut flesh ; a wind that passeth away and cometh not again .

Which here notes either 1. The corruption of their natures, which was perpetually inclining them to sin▪ and consequently exposing them to God's wrath, which must needs have consumed them utterly and speedily, if God had let loose his anger upon them. See the same argument used to a like purpose, Gen. 8. 21. Or rather 2. The frailty or infirmity of their natures, as the next clause interprets this; which is such, that if I should not restrain my wrath, I should quickly cut off the body o[illegible: 1+ letters] this wicked people, and their children with them, whom I have promised to carry into Canaan, Numb. 14. 31.

That are quickly cut off, and when once they are dead they never return to this life.

Marginal references: Psal. 103▪ [illegible: 1+ letters]4.