Thematic Bible: Brief
Thematic Bible
Life » Brief » Only a handbreadth in extent
Look, you have made my life span fit in your hand; It is nothing compared to yours. Surely every person at their best is a puff of wind. Interlude
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Remember how short my lifetime is! How powerless have you created all human beings!
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All our days pass away in your wrath; our years fade away and end like a sigh.
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My life is like a declining shadow, and I am withering like a plant.
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Life » Brief » Like hurrying messengers
He springs up like a flower and then withers. Like a shadow, he disappears and doesn't last.
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"My days pass faster than a runner; but they pass quickly without seeing anything good.
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Life » Brief » Like a shadow
For we are aliens and vagrants in your presence, as were all of our ancestors. Our days on the earth pass away like shadows, and we have no hope.
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Life » Brief » Like a flying shuttle
My days pass as swiftly as a hand-loom; they come to their conclusion without hope.
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Because we are of yesterday and we know nothing, for our time on earth is only a shadow.
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Life » Brief » Life brief, figurative allusions to the brevity of
"I'm 130 years old," Jacob replied. "My years have turned out to be few and unpleasant, but I haven't yet reached the age my ancestors did during their travels on earth."
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Life » Brief » Like a weaver's web
My house has been plucked up and vanishes from me like a shepherd's tent; like a weaver, I've taken account of my life, and he cuts me off from the loom day and night you make an end of me.
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Life » Brief » Like a vanishing vapour
You do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
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