3 LORD, what is aman,
that thou takest knowledge of him! or the son of man, that thou
makest account of him!
4 Man is like to
avanitya: his
days are as a bshadow that passeth away.
5 Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
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4a Man is like to vanity
The 'man' which is spoken of here is temporal fallen man of mortality. The
things of this world, worldly power, possessions, desires and pride are but
short lived vain things which will all pass and not last. It is all vanity
and thus the things of the natural man, which are all corruptible and will
have and end, are all vanity and false in respect to the lasting things of
God. Now this does not speak of the spirit of man, nor that eternal glorified
being of flesh and bone, that celestial tabernacle which will house us for
ever more to come in eternity. That to is man and as it yields to the things
of the spirit over the things of the flesh, then that 'Man' like God is a
'Man of Holiness' and not of this world but of the eternal world to come.
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