Thematic Bible: Brevity of


Thematic Bible



Behold, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath." Selah. Verse ConceptsPhysical LifeWeights And Measures, LinearVanityMan A Mere BreathPsalm InterjectionsPerspective

Remember how short my time is. For what vanity have you created all the children of men. Verse ConceptsFutilityAge, Span Of LifeLife, HumanPhysical LifeLife, Brevity OfThe Shortness Of TimeUseless PeopleTime Passing

For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh. Verse ConceptsSighingPhysical LifePassing AwayPeople EndedDeathFinishing Strong


For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun? Verse ConceptsPhysical LifeTravailWithheld KnowledgeUnknown FutureUnder The SunBeing Happy And Enjoying LifeEnjoying Lifeuncertainty

He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn't continue. Verse ConceptsFlowersdrynessLife, HumanPhysical LifeShadowsLife, Brevity OfTime Passing

"Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away, they see no good, Verse ConceptsLife, HumanPhysical LifeLife, Brevity OfFast RunnersNothing GoodLife Cut Short

For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining. Verse ConceptsForeignersBeing A PilgrimHope, Results Of Its AbsenceLife, HumanPhysical LifePessimismPassing ThroughShadowsYear Of JubileeLife, Brevity OfPilgrimsPilgrims, Examples OfImmigrantsAliens


(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.) Verse ConceptsLife, HumanPhysical LifeShadowsLife, Brevity OfThose Who Were IgnorantTime PassingWeather In The Last Days

Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage." Verse ConceptsAge, Span Of LifePhysical LifePilgrimagePilgrims, Examples OfFamily Problems

My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me like a shepherd's tent. I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life. He will cut me off from the loom. From day even to night you will make an end of me. Verse ConceptsCraftsmenLife, HumanPhysical LifeSpinning And WeavingPeople EndedLife Cut ShortLife Being Temporary