Thematic Bible: Brief
Thematic Bible
Life » Brief » Only a handbreadth in extent
You have made my days no longer than a hand's measure; and my years are nothing in your eyes; truly, every man is but a breath. (Selah.)
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See how short my time is; why have you made all men for no purpose?
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Who is able to say what is good for man in life all the days of his foolish life which he goes through like a shade? who will say what is to be after him under the sun?
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Life » Brief » Like hurrying messengers
He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again.
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My days go quicker than a post-runner: they go in flight, they see no good.
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Life » Brief » Like a shadow
For we, as all our fathers were, are like men from a strange country before you, who have got a place for a time in the land; our days on the earth are like a shade, and there is no hope of going on.
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Life » Brief » Like a flying shuttle
My days go quicker than the cloth-worker's thread, and come to an end without hope.
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(For we are but of yesterday, and have no knowledge, because our days on earth are gone like a shade:)
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Life » Brief » Life brief, figurative allusions to the brevity of
And Jacob said, The years of my wanderings have been a hundred and thirty; small in number and full of sorrow have been the years of my life, and less than the years of the wanderings of my fathers.
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Life » Brief » Like a weaver's web
My resting-place is pulled up and taken away from me like a herdsman's tent: my life is rolled up like a linen-worker's thread; I am cut off from the cloth on the frame: from day even to night you give me up to pain.
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Life » Brief » Like a vanishing vapour
When you are not certain what will take place tomorrow. What is your life? It is a mist, which is seen for a little time and then is gone.
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