Thematic Bible: Brief
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Life » Brief » Only a handbreadth in extent
Indeed, you have made the length of my days very short. My life span is nothing compared to yours. Certainly, everyone alive is like a whisper in the wind.
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Remember how short my life span is! Have you created the sons of men for no reason?
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Indeed, all our days slip away because of your fury. We live out our years like one long sigh.
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My days are like a lengthened shadow and I wither away like grass.
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Who knows what is good for man in this life? Are all the days of his vain life that he spends like a shadow? Who can tell a man what will happen after his existence under the sun?
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Life » Brief » Like hurrying messengers
He springs up like a flower and fades away. He is like a fleeting shadow and does not endure.
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My days are swifter than a runner! They flee away and see no good.
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Life » Brief » Like a shadow
You know, O Jehovah that we pass through life like exiles and strangers, as our ancestors did. Our days are like a passing shadow, and we cannot escape death.
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Life » Brief » Like a flying shuttle
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle flying back and forth. They end without hope.
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After all we were born only yesterday and know nothing, and our days on earth are a mere shadow.
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Life » Brief » Life brief, figurative allusions to the brevity of
Jacob answered: My life of wandering has lasted a hundred and thirty years. Those years have been few and difficult, unlike the long years of my ancestors in their wanderings.
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Life » Brief » Like a weaver's web
My life was over. You rolled it up like a shepherd's tent. You rolled up my life like a weaver. You cut me off from the loom. You ended my life in one day.
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Life » Brief » Like a vanishing vapour
You do not know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? For you are a vapor (puff of air) that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.
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