Thematic Bible: Brevity of
Thematic Bible
Time » Brevity of » Only a handbreadth in extent
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
Remember what my lifespan [is]. [Remember] for what vanity you have created all [the] children of humankind.
For all of our days dwindle away in your rage; we complete our years like a sigh.
My days [are] like a lengthened shadow, and I wither like grass.
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?
Time » Brevity of » Like hurrying messengers
Like a flower he comes up, and he withers away; and he flees like a shadow, but he does not last.
"And my days are swifter than a runner; they flee away; they do not see good.
Time » Brevity of » Like a shadow
For we [are] strangers before you and sojourners like all our ancestors. Our days [are] like the shadow upon earth, and there is no hope [of abiding].
Time » Brevity of » Like a flying shuttle
"My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and they come to an end {without hope}.
for we [are of] yesterday, and we do not know, for our days on 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] 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."
Time » Brevity of » Like a weaver's web
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.
Time » Brevity of » Like a vanishing vapour
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.