God's mercy is grounded in divine understanding: "He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes and does not come again." The mortals' frailty—their fleshly nature, their transience—evokes God's compassion. Rather than emphasizing human sin alone, the verse suggests that God's mercy is rooted in realistic awareness of human weakness and the brevity of human life.

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