Thematic Bible: Brevity of
Thematic Bible
Time » Brevity of » Only a handbreadth in extent
Behold, thou hast made my days as hand-breadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before thee; verily, every man, even the high placed, is altogether vanity. Selah.
Remember, as regards me, what life is. Wherefore hast thou created all the children of men to be vanity?
For all our days pass away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a passing thought.
My days are like a lengthened-out shadow, and I, I am withered like grass.
For who knoweth what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell man what shall be after him under the sun?
Time » Brevity of » Like hurrying messengers
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down; and he fleeth as a shadow, and continueth not.
And my days are swifter than a runner: they flee away, they see no good.
Time » Brevity of » Like a shadow
For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no hope of life.
Time » Brevity of » Like a flying shuttle
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, for our days upon earth are a shadow.
Time » Brevity of » Life brief, figurative allusions to the brevity of
And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my sojourning are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they do not attain to the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their sojourning.
Time » Brevity of » Like a weaver's web
Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent. I have cut off like a weaver my life. He separateth me from the thrum: from day to night thou wilt make an end of me.
Time » Brevity of » Like a vanishing vapour
ye who do not know what will be on the morrow, (for what is your life? It is even a vapour, appearing for a little while, and then disappearing,)