Job 6:11
“What strength do I have left, that I should wait [and hope]?
And what is ahead of me, that I should be patient and endure?
Job 7:5-7
“My body is clothed with worms and a crust of dust;
My skin is hardened [and broken and loathsome], and [breaks out and] runs.
Job 10:20
“Would He not let my few days alone,
Withdraw from me that I may have a little cheer
Job 13:25
“Will You cause a windblown leaf to tremble?
Will You pursue the chaff of the dry stubble?
Job 13:28
While I waste away like a rotten thing,
Like a garment that is moth-eaten.
Job 17:1
The grave is ready for me.
Job 17:14-16
If I call out to the pit (grave), ‘You are my father’;
And to the worm [that feeds on decay], ‘You are my mother and my sister [because I will soon be closest to you],’
Job 21:4
“As for me, is my complaint to man or about him?
And why should I not be impatient and my spirit troubled?
Psalm 39:5
“Behold, You have made my days as [short as] hand widths,
And my lifetime is as nothing in Your sight.
Surely every man at his best is a mere breath [a wisp of smoke, a vapor that vanishes]!
Psalm 90:5-10
You have swept them away like a flood, they fall asleep [forgotten as soon as they are gone];
In the morning they are like grass which grows anew—
Psalm 102:23
He has exhausted my strength [humbling me with sorrow] in the way;
He has shortened my days.
Psalm 103:14-16
For He knows our [mortal] frame;
He remembers that we are [merely] dust.
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“My body is clothed with worms and a crust of dust;
My skin is hardened [and broken and loathsome], and [breaks out and] runs.
“Would He not let my few days alone,
Withdraw from me that I may have a little cheer
“Will You cause a windblown leaf to tremble?
Will You pursue the chaff of the dry stubble?
The grave is ready for me.
“Behold, You have made my days as [short as] hand widths,
And my lifetime is as nothing in Your sight.
Surely every man at his best is a mere breath [a wisp of smoke, a vapor that vanishes]!
You have swept them away like a flood, they fall asleep [forgotten as soon as they are gone];
In the morning they are like grass which grows anew—
He has exhausted my strength [humbling me with sorrow] in the way;
He has shortened my days.
For He knows our [mortal] frame;
He remembers that we are [merely] dust.
General references
I said, “In mid-life
I am to go through the gates of Sheol (the place of the dead),
I am to be summoned, deprived of the remainder of my years.”
So I say, “My strength has perished
And so has my hope and expectation from the Lord.”