Thematic Bible: Brevity of
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Time » Brevity of » Only a handbreadth in extent
Behold, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath." Selah.
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Remember how short my time is. For what vanity have you created all the children of men.
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For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.
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My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.
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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?
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Time » Brevity of » Like hurrying messengers
He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn't continue.
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"Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away, they see no good,
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Time » Brevity of » Like a shadow
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.
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Time » Brevity of » Like a flying shuttle
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
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(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)
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Time » Brevity of » Life brief, figurative allusions to the brevity of
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."
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Time » Brevity of » Like a weaver's web
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.
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Time » Brevity of » Like a vanishing vapour
Whereas you do not know what tomorrow will be like. What is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.
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