Thematic Bible: Brief
Thematic Bible
Life » Brief » Only a handbreadth in extent
Behold, you have made my days as a handbreadth; and my age is as nothing before you: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
Remember how short my time is: why have you made all men in vain?
For all our days are passed away in your wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.
My days are like a shadow that declines; and I am withered like grass.
For who knows what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?
Life » Brief » Like hurrying messengers
He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down: he flees also as a shadow, and continues not.
Now my days are swifter than a runner: they flee away, they see no good.
Life » Brief » Like a shadow
For we are strangers before you, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.
Life » Brief » Like a flying shuttle
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)
Life » Brief » Life brief, figurative allusions to the brevity of
And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
Life » Brief » Like a weaver's web
My age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off from the loom: from day even to night will you make an end of me.
Life » Brief » Like a vanishing vapour
Whereas you know not what shall be tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.