Thematic Bible: Brief
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Life » Brief » Only a handbreadth in extent
Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely all mankind stands as a mere breath! Selah
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Remember how short my time is! For what vanity you have created all the children of man!
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For all our days pass away under your wrath; we bring our years to an end like a sigh.
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My days are like an evening shadow; I wither away like grass.
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For who knows what is good for man while he lives the few days of his vain life, which he passes like a shadow? For who can tell man what will be after him under the sun?
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Life » Brief » Like hurrying messengers
He comes out like a flower and withers; he flees like a shadow and continues not.
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"My days are swifter than a runner; they flee away; they see no good.
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Life » Brief » Like a shadow
For we are strangers before you and sojourners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no abiding.
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Life » Brief » Like a flying shuttle
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle and come to their end without hope.
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For we are but of yesterday and know nothing, for our days on earth are a shadow.
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Life » Brief » Life brief, figurative allusions to the brevity of
And Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my sojourning are 130 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 sojourning."
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Life » Brief » Like a weaver's web
My dwelling is plucked up and removed from me like a shepherd's tent; like a weaver I have rolled up my life; he cuts me off from the loom; from day to night you bring me to an end;
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Life » Brief » Like a vanishing vapour
yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.
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