“A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one’s birth” (Ecclesiastes 7:1).

“And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights” (Genesis 7:12).

“To whom also He showed Himself alive after His passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God” (Acts 1:3).

“And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever” (Isaiah 32:17).

“Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labor until the evening” (Psalm 104:23).

The 104th psalm is a beautiful psalm of creation and the flood, supplemented by God’s providential care of His creatures in the post-flood world. Our text makes man’s activity seem almost incidental in the grand scope of God’s activities on behalf of His whole creation.