Thematic Bible: Brief
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Life » Brief » Only a handbreadth in extent
Behold, You have made my days as a handbreadth, and my age is as nothing before You. Surely every man standing is altogether vanity. Selah.
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Remember, I pray, how short my time is; why have You made all men in vain?
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For all our days pass away in Your wrath; we finish our years like a murmur.
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My days are like a shadow stretched out; and I wither 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 as a shadow? For who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?
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Life » Brief » Like hurrying messengers
He comes forth like a flower, and withers; he also flees as a shadow, and does not stand.
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Now 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 pilgrims, as our fathers were. Our days on the earth are like a shadow, and none abides.
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Life » Brief » Like a flying shuttle
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are ended 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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Life » Brief » Life brief, figurative allusions to the brevity of
And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and I 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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Life » Brief » Like a weaver's web
My generation is departed and removed from me like a shepherd's tent; I have cut off my life like a weaver; He will cut me off from the loom; from day even to night You will make an end of me.
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Life » Brief » Like a vanishing vapour
who do not know of the morrow. For what is your life? For it is a vapor, which appears for a little time, and then disappears.
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