“His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Psalms 146 contains 10 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.