Thematic Bible: Is compared to
Thematic Bible
natural Life » Is compared to » A shadow
For who knows what [is] good for a man in his life during the few days of his fleeting life, which are fleeting as a shadow? For who can tell anyone what will happen {in the future} under the sun?
natural Life » Is compared to » Water spilt on the ground
For {we must certainly die}, and [we are] as the waters spilled to the ground which cannot be gathered. God will not take a life but devises plans for a banished person not to be cast out from him.
natural Life » Is compared to » A thread cut by the weaver
My dwelling place is pulled up and removed from me like the tent of my shepherd; I have rolled up my life like weaver. He cuts me off from [the] thrum; from day to night you bring me to an end.
natural Life » Is compared to » A shepherd's tent removed
For Sheol cannot praise you; death [cannot] praise you. Those who go down [to the] pit cannot hope for your faithfulness.
natural Life » Is compared to » A pilgrimage
And Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my sojourning [are] one hundred and thirty years. Few and hard have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not reached the days of the years of the lives of my ancestors in the days of their sojourning."
natural Life » Is compared to » Grass
For "all flesh [is] like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the grass. The grass withers and the flower falls off,
natural Life » Is compared to » A dream
Like a dream upon awakening, when [you] wake up, O Lord, you will despise their fleeting form.
natural Life » Is compared to » A hand-breadth
Look, you have made my days [mere] handbreadths, and my lifespan as nothing next to you. Surely every person standing firm [is] complete vanity. Selah
natural Life » Is compared to » A tale told
For all of our days dwindle away in your rage; we complete our years like a sigh.
natural Life » Is compared to » A vapor
you who do not know {what will happen tomorrow}, {what your life will be like}. For you are a smoky vapor that appears for a short time and then disappears.
natural Life » Is compared to » A sleep
You sweep them away [like a flood]. They fall asleep. In the morning [they are] like grass [that] sprouts anew.
natural Life » Is compared to » An eagle hasting to the prey
They go by like papyrus skiffs, like an eagle swoops down on [its] prey.
natural Life » Is compared to » A swift post
"And my days are swifter than a runner; they flee away; they do not see good.
natural Life » Is compared to » A swift ship
They go by like papyrus skiffs, like an eagle swoops down on [its] prey.
natural Life » Is compared to » A flower
Like a flower he comes up, and he withers away; and he flees like a shadow, but he does not last.
natural Life » Is compared to » A weaver's shuttle
"My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and they come to an end {without hope}.